Glad You Got Busted!

[Lee Borgersen]

      ...  Minnesota cops nab hundreds of texting drivers

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More than 300 agencies took part in a campaign against texting and driving, which resulted in almost 1,000 drivers getting tickets. LM Otero | AP 2013
Nearly 1,000 Minnesota drivers got tickets during a police crackdown earlier this month on texting while driving.
 
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More than 300 agencies took part in the anti-texting campaign. State law forbids drivers to read, compose or send texts and e-mails, or go online while their vehicle is in motion or stopped in traffic. But many people ignore the law.

"We had a trooper try to stop a texting driver for two miles before the driver actually pulled over,"  :banghead:said Donna Berger, director of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Office of Traffic Safety. "They weren't fleeing. They were just so distracted from their texting."

Last year, texting and other forms of distracted driving contributed to 74 deaths in Minnesota.

"Unfortunately, I believe many people have an addiction to their phone and multi-tasking behind the wheel and believe that they can do it safely,"  Berger said.

There's a $50 fine for first-time texting offenders. Subsequent violations cost $275.


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[snow1]

Drives me nuts everyday driving to work,tell tail sign is the weaving as you approach the vehicle with either someone texting or reading a paper,either way its dangerous as hell,I get right next to the person texting and lay on the horn,scares the sheet out of them....Hope the copes keep at it,last two years I'm afraid to ride my bike along any road shoulder because you always see some idiot looking down while swirving onto the shoulder,knowing full well they are texting.

[HD]

I pass a guy every morning, with his dome light on and a book on his steering wheel.

[Boar]

yuup.almkst 1 kut 3 cars, jhead comes up just as tjheyu pass yuou. jhonkin tjhe jhorn is not a good thhing in my opinion, mighht scare thhem into thhe othher lane or over.compensate. thheyu need mor camers  at stop lighhts and such if pic can show obvious texting and liscene plate send them a ticket

[corny13]

couple years ago in the middle of the Bakken oil boom, a couple people a week were getting killed in NW Nodak.  A guy I know that worked on the Watford City Ambulance told me that Most of those crashes involved some dumb  hole  texting!