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Ontario Moves Toward A Ban
Just six months ago Dalton McGuinty said he wasn’t in favour of banning cell phone use in cars, but now he’s looking for at developing legislation that will cover all car electronics like GPS systems and blackberries.
Some argue that his type of legislation will be hard to enforce and that’s true. Some feel that police have enough to do without driving around looking for people using cell phones in their cars.
But that’s over-thinking the situation.
Laws should put in place to be used if needed. If a cop happens to see a driver using a phone, then he/she should have the option of writing them up.
If an accident is caused by the use of a cell phone and there are witnesses, then it should be used against the driver.
One handed drivers is an increasing problem in the province and it’s got to be addressed.
This is not one of those issues that should be used by the opposition to pick holes in the sitting government. The practice is dangerous and its only getting worse.
It’s time to start cracking down.
I'm not much of a fan of this sort of law but as a motorcycle rider I would love to see a cell ban. I watched a VERY stupid person chatting on her phone all the way from Lawerance to St Clair on Mt Pleasant monday night and she went through at least 2 red lights and changed lane 3 times without signaling or looking. I tried to get away from her but traffic was just too heavy. It's worse on the 401 in rush hour. There's always tons of idiots weaving or going 20 under the limit talking away on the phone. It drives me crazy and frankly scares the hell out me.
As a blind person, I can't put into words how in favour of this I am. I'm forced through no fault of my own to put my life in the hands of idiots on a daily basis. Walking around cities has shown me that people can't drive, and I know from being on the insides of a lot of vehicles that distractions from phones and the like play a large part in that. It especially burns me up when I see a bus driver or a taxi driver doing it and not paying attention to the road. It's about time this sort of thing was taken seriously and I'll be hoping that when the studying is done a good law is written and enforced.
It is inconceivable to me that cell phone use while driving has not been banned. The UK banned holding a phone at your head years ago. Hands free only, and that is the way it should be everywhere.
For that liar McGuinty to have been against banning a cell phone at the head while driving shows that this ignorant idiot does not drive a car in the GTA.
It is at the point now, where every accident that I see... I immediately say "On the cell phone" I am on the road in the GTA and I have personally witnessed 3 accidents where people just drove into other cars while talking on the cell phone. I get cut off at least once every single day... and when you get beside the idiot, they have their cell phone at their head, oblivious to the world.
I can not believe that the insurance companies have not lobbied to have a law in place years ago... cell phone use is the cause of tens of millions of dollars in claims to insurance companies, maybe hundreds. I pay a lot more for my 16 year old boy's insurance than what a 16 year old girl would pay... while every young girl you see driving is holding a cell phone at their head... totally oblivious to anything around them. I have come across many accidents where someone drove into the back of another car and standing beside perpetrators car is always a young girl, where I immediately say "cell phone". Including the horror of a 17 year old girl who turned in front of a bus on Bathurst St. in Richmond Hill and was killed. I didn't have to hear it, witnesses said she was talking on a cell phone at the time. The insurance companies need to rethink the young girl paying less.
What about the cops? They love new and easy sources of revenue. This would be a win fall... new cars for all forces! Forget about photo radar, point the cameras at the front of the cars and snap pics of the masses with the cell phone at their heads, mail out the tickets and let the revenue roll in. The cops stand on all the on ramps looking for seatbelt violators... do double duty, go for cell phone users as well, and my guess will be that the cell phone tickets outnumber the seatbelt tickets by 50 to 1.