State officials are asking motorists to participate in the national Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day on Sunday by obeying all traffic laws, including buckling up, not texting or talking on a cell phone, and not speeding. Quick calls or texts on a cell phone, speeding, passing on the right, and a multitude of other unsafe and illegal driving behaviors are part of about 85 percent of car crashes, according to state Highway Traffic Safety director Pam Fischer.
The number of New Jersey motorists who admit they have sent a text message while driving increased 20 percent between 2009 and 2010, according to a 2010 Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind Poll. And while young drivers are still more likely to text and drive, according to the poll, there has been a marked increase in texting by motorists 30 to 60 years of age. Read full article in APP.
Hopefully it will be a quiet day for all the EMS, First Aid, and Hatzolah members in town…..
Yea I doubt that
Put the brakes on Lason Harah!
*Lashon
lakewood no cell phones, that well be the day