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sagetek
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No more GPS on Alabama roads?
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2/19/2009 10:15:25 PM
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Check out the last three sentences!! This bill BANS GPS units from actively being used on highways in Alabama!!! No touching the unit while in motion!! Are we totally idiots???
House votes to ban text messaging while driving2/19/2009, 4:20 p.m. CSTBy BOB JOHNSONThe Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House passed a bill Thursday that would prohibit motorists from sending or reading text messages on a cell phone while driving.
The bill by Rep. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, passed the House 92-4 Thursday. It now goes to the Senate for debate.
McClendon, a retired optometrist, said he believes text messaging is a major distraction and banning the practice while driving would save lives.
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"It's frustrating to get behind one of these drivers who is drifting from lane to lane while he text messages," McClendon said.
Alaska, Connecticut, California, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington and the District of Columbia ban text messaging while driving. Nine other states ban it for novice or teenage drivers.
Rep. Spencer Collier, R-Bayou La Batre, voted against the bill. Collier, a former state trooper, said he believes it would be hard for law enforcement officers to enforce.
"It's going to be hard for the officer to identify if the driver is text messaging," Collier said. He said most law enforcement officers that he has talked to oppose the bill.
The bill would fine drivers $25 for a first violation, $50 for a second and $75 for each one after that.
As originally proposed, it would have assessed a driver three points against his driving record for each violation; a driver can lose his license if he has 12 points on his record.
But the House added an amendment by Rep. Craig Ford, D-Gadsden, that changed the bill so that only one point would be assessed against the driving record for each violation. Ford said assessing three points would have made it hard for parents to get insurance for young drivers.
The bill was also amended to ban drivers from manually operating a global positioning system while driving.
During debate in the House, McClendon conceded that there are many distractions that could cause a driver to have an accident, such as eating or putting on makeup or listening to music. But he said none force a driver to take his or her eyes off the road like typing a message into a cell phone.
"This is probably the worst distraction there can be in an automobile, other than having a car full of teenagers," McClendon said.
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solvacc
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No text msg while drivin' ?
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2/20/2009 2:01:12 AM
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Seems like a good law to me. Keeps distracted drivers off the road. Its ok for the passengers to fiddle with the text msg or GPS, so where is the rub?
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Texting is a problem especially with teens. GPS however is a device made to be used with a car for guidance. They can't even pass a constitution since 1906 and they are worried about things like this. It may be time to run for office. We've got some idiots in there!
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TotheLake
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No more GPS on Alabama roads?
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2/20/2009 7:50:01 AM
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I agree with the texting part. I'm glad to see it. I got behind a girl Wednesday morning on 231 at Redland Road and was behind her the entire way to Montgomery, all the way to Lagoon Park and she was texting and vering into my lane the whole time. I couldn't go around her because I was afraid she would hit me when I would go around her. She almost hit the rails on various bridges 3 times.
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mckaygmc
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No more GPS on Alabama roads?
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2/20/2009 8:48:31 AM
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We had a driver in the Company I work for that was hit head on because the boy that hit him was texting a freind.
Now the young Man is dead and Our driver luckily wasn't killed but will most likely never walk again. Sad.
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Summer Lover
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No more GPS on Alabama roads?
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2/20/2009 10:45:37 AM
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Is there not a law banning distracted driving? If there is - enforce it, no worry about trying to see WHY the idiot is all over the road. Don't care if they are texting or talking on a phone, playing with a GPS or radio, drinking, eating or drunk.
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