Letter to the Editor: Texting While Driving Bill Goes Too Far
Dangerous law would make smart phone uses criminals.
Editor's Note: The following was submitted as a Letter to the Editor by Andrew Flusche, Attorney at Law. It is unedited. Delegate Cline pre-filed a texting while driving bill on December 4 that repeals the current Virginia ban against texting while driving. Cline’s bill replaces that narrowly tailored law with a dangerously broad addition to Virginia’s thirteen different types of reckless driving. The bill, HB 1360, would make it a class 1 misdemeanor for anyone caught “driving a motor vehicle on any highway in the Commonwealth while simultaneously using a handheld personal communications device for any purpose other than verbal communication.” The proposed bill dramatically broadens the prohibited acts and punishments for offenders. The …
Linda
11:16 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Linda Anyone who opposes this new bill has to be a person who does not value his/her life and the lives of others. How many people have to die in tragic vehicle accidents before people "GET IT". Does anybody care about the people who have lost family members because of texting or even talking on cell phones? Is there anything so important that a person can't wait until they are at home? more ›