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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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