Put up or shut up!
That says it all. I ain't gonna worry to take a picture though.
And this is another issue that makes our roads hellish roads...
Driving while dialing
According to a study released Dec. 15 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 10 percent of the 974,000 drivers on American roads at any given moment are yammering into mobile phones.
Six percent are using "hand-held" phones, which means that unless they're anatomical oddities, they have only one hand free for the more important business of driving.
When you factor in the results of other studies, the situation can be downright scary. Americans spend an average of 300 hours in the car every year; more than 151 million of us have wireless phones.
Nobody knows for sure how big a risk driving and dialing poses. But there are a few educated guesses out there.
A study published in the British Medical Journal in July suggested that drivers using cell phones are four times more likely to have a wreck that causes serious injuries than those who are not.
And a 2003 Harvard study mentioned by the National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that cell-phone use by drivers might cause 2,600 rests, 330,000 injuries and 1.5 million wrecks causing property damage every year.
Closer to home, researchers at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center estimated in 2001 that 1,475 wrecks in this state involved the use of a cellular telephone.
No matter which study you look at, those are big numbers.
