Cell Phone Ban While Driving Gets Big Push

It's simple: punish this behavior

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"A new report out Tuesday finds that one out of four crashes is caused by a "cell phone driver" - someone who could be holding the phone or using a hands-free device. Both are equally distracting, experts say. Joe Teater would have been a freshman in college had a 20-year-old woman talking on her cell phone not driven through a red light six years ago and killed him. "We lost Joe as a result of a phone call and you think about that today and it just seems so senseless," Teater's father, David, said. Hoping to educate drivers about just how dangerous it is to talk - and text - behind the wheel, Tuesday the Teaters and others who lost loved ones in cell phone crashes are establishing a national advocacy group modeled after Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Their group is called Focus Driven. According to statistics, crashes caused by drivers using cell phones rose from 636,000 in 2003 to 1.6 million in 2008, CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports."
- Cell Phone Ban While Driving Gets Big Push - The Early Show - CBS News (view on Google Sidewiki)