Ah, who am I kidding? I love to say that. Who doesn't?
According to figures released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - an American outfit, natch - laws banning texting while driving may actually increase the rate of accidents.
The irony is strong in this one.
One suggestion is that offenders don't change their behaviour, but do start trying to conceal it, by holding their phone lower - thus taking their eyes further from where they're supposed to be.
Whatever. To me, it just highlights what I said at the time: this is a stupid law, enacted by people who were either dumb, or playing dumb, or just plain corrupt.
When a law whose purpose is to improve public safety turns out to be not merely ineffective, but actively counter-productive - what should we do about it?
If the answer turns out to be "repeal the law", I'll be amazed.
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