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Updated: 10:22 PM Feb 8, 2012
Texting Bill Approved in Alabama
If you're tired of seeing cars swerve into your lane, you'll be happy to know a bill to put an end to texting while driving is making progress in the Alabama Legislature.
Posted: 9:28 PM Feb 8, 2012Reporter: Deanna Bettineschi Email Address: deanna@wtvy.com |
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An Alabama House Committee has approved this texting bill that will not only ban sending text messages, but reading them as well.
The bill, sponsored by republican Jim McClendon, was approved today.
If passed, it would allow law enforcement officers to issue a fine to a driver caught texting while driving.
That fine would be twenty five dollars for the first offense, fifty dollars for the second and seventy five for the third.
It would also add one point to your driver’s license for each citation. If you rack up twelve points you could lose your license.
Officers say texting and driving is just as dangerous as drinking and driving.
Picture this ... when you read a text message, you take your eyes off the road for approximately five seconds.
If you're traveling at 55-miles per hour, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field.
According to the national highway traffic safety administration, a texting driver is 23-times more likely to get into an accident, than a non-texting driver.
Last session, the texting ban proposal passed in the house, but died in the senate.
The bill goes to the full house for debate.
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