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Academy midshipman crashed into their parked car. The driver said

in court that when he looked up from the cell phone he was dial-

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ing, he was three feet from the car and had no time to stop

is given when

(Stockwell B8).

available.

Expert testimony, public opinion, and even cartoons sug-

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sentences, like

gest that driving while phoning is dangerous. Frances Bents, an

this one, are

used throughout

expert on the relation between cell phones and accidents, esti-

the paper.

mates that between 450 and 1,000 crashes a year have some

connection to cell phone use (Layton C9). In a survey published

by Farmers Insurance Group, 87% of those polled said that cell

phones affect a driver’s ability, and 40% reported having close

calls with drivers distracted by phones. Many cartoons have

depicted the very real dangers of driving while distracted (see

Fig. 1).

Scientific research confirms the dangers of using phones

while on the road. In 1997 an important study appeared in the

New England Journal of Medicine. The authors, Donald Redelmeier

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and Robert Tibshirani, studied 699 volunteers who made their cell

introduced with

a signal phrase

phone bills available in order to confirm the times when they

naming the authors.

had placed calls. The participants agreed to report any nonfatal

collision in which they were involved. By comparing the time of

a collision with the phone records, the researchers assessed the

dangers of driving while phoning. The results are unsettling:

We found that using a cellular telephone was associ-

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ated with a risk of having a motor vehicle collision

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marks are omitted.

that was about four times as high as that

among the same drivers when they were not using

their cellular telephones. This relative risk is similar

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

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