NH drivers will have to put down phones as of July 1

[PaugusBayFireFighter]

Originally Posted by HomeWood

Cell phone use while driving causes collisions that have killed and injured thousands of people. How about the wishes of those that do not want to get hit by cell phone users or anybody for that matter? I have responded to and take numerous wreck reports caused by distracted driving due to phones and messing with GPS devices.

Alcohol prohibition of the early 1900's and cell phone use while driving today could not be more different. Driving while impaired is illegal and there are speed limits for obvious reasons. We do not want a nanny state, so just abolish those laws and we can all do what we want in our cars. A 5000 pound car hitting you from a drunk driver or a texting driver is the same. Physics does not care what we were doing. Keep in mind that two cars traveling on a two lane road towards each other at 55 mph each causes a collision speed of 110 mph if they should hit.

I guess you have to be personally affected or see the affects of it to really care about the issue.

I agree with everything except the impact. I know, I'm getting technical here, but two cars traveling at 55 mph and hitting head on is not the equivalent of a 110 mph impact, it's equivalent to hitting a solid wall at 55 mph. Either way, you're dead. Newtonian physics never lie...physics always works!

I was riding my motorcycle on Weirs Blvd. today and watched the woman in front of me screwing with her phone. She drifted across the double yellow and almost hit a truck head on. The truck driver swerved and missed US. Needless to say, she got an earful at the next light.