New Cell Phone Law
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New Cell Phone Law
This FYI and it's about time.
This is for the State of NJ just signed today.
Tougher driver cellphone rules signed into law
(07/19/12)TRENTON - It's now easier forNew Jersey prosecutors to obtain convictions on vehicular homicide or assault by auto charges when drivers kill or injure someone while using a cellphone.
The measure was signed into law yesterday by Acting Gov. Kim Guadagno, just weeks after it was passed in the state Legislature.
The law classifies the illegal use of a hand-held cellphone as driving recklessly, one of the factors needed in finding a person guilty of vehicular homicide or assault by auto.
Proponents had argued the measure was needed because it was difficult to hold drivers criminally accountable when they kill or injure someone while using a cellphone.
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nice but not likely to save lives.
reminds me of child "safety" procedures in towns where they video tape and photograph your child and record birth marks. all that does it make it easier to identify their body if found. zero for protection.
it is what it is. lets not make it out to be more than what it is.
reminds me of child "safety" procedures in towns where they video tape and photograph your child and record birth marks. all that does it make it easier to identify their body if found. zero for protection.
it is what it is. lets not make it out to be more than what it is.
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We need laws that would actually force the police to investigate crashes properly and punish cops severely for botched investigations. Otherwise all these laws are pretty much useless.
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That seems a little extreme to me Adam. You never get everything you want...resources are scarce. This strikes me as a legitimate move forwards and I would not qualify it as useless.
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Use of hand held cp's while driving should have the same consequences as DUI. As with DUI, enforcement is always a problem. But unlike alcohol, cp records are not metabolized, so correlating yack time with hit time is usually not hard to do.
I wonder if the NJ law applies to hands free cp use?
I wonder if the NJ law applies to hands free cp use?
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blah... California has a cell phone law that has done absolutely nothing to keep people off their damn phones. It's just being used occasionally as yet another way to forcibly extract money from citizens, but it's done nothing to keep people paying attention to the road.
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New Jersey is a nanny state... If you like having big government and lots of laws then that's the state to be living in.
How many lives will be saved with the "Texting While Walking" ban?
They don't really give a crap about you... they just want your money.
How many lives will be saved with the "Texting While Walking" ban?
They don't really give a crap about you... they just want your money.
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That gosh darn big government...we don't need no stinking laws asking people not to drive a 2000 pound death machine while distracted. They can take their roads, bridges and federal disaster relief money and go pound!
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The end result is rarely positive change.
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They took and pounded something after Katrina with all that money... and it looks like someone's taking and pounding it in California now too as the roads get steadily worse. Where's all that money going? Not into the infrastructure, that's for sure.
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This law is to punish those that cause deaths after the fact, it will do little to prevent them. Until the handheld laws are enforced not much will change.
Christie is stumping for the GOP, he's still the FMIC(Fat Man In Charge).
Christie is stumping for the GOP, he's still the FMIC(Fat Man In Charge).
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The drivers out here are freaking crazy and there is not enough cops. When I lived in Washington State, there were tons but when I moved to NJ last year, I drove for three months without seeing a cop.
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So yeah, while I don't like government intrusion, IMO this one is way overdue.
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Notice the law refers to killing or maiming someone. We need a stinkin' law to prosecute someone who has killed or maimed someone??? Yeah, cell phones and driving mix about as well as drinking and driving but come on, you kill some one and the state needs a special law to prosecute?! What am I missing?
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Great law, I'm sure it will be one that all motorists observe...are we in la la land yet?
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This FYI and it's about time.
This is for the State of NJ just signed today.
Tougher driver cellphone rules signed into law
(07/19/12)TRENTON - It's now easier forNew Jersey prosecutors to obtain convictions on vehicular homicide or assault by auto charges when drivers kill or injure someone while using a cellphone.
The measure was signed into law yesterday by Acting Gov. Kim Guadagno, just weeks after it was passed in the state Legislature.
The law classifies the illegal use of a hand-held cellphone as driving recklessly, one of the factors needed in finding a person guilty of vehicular homicide or assault by auto.
Proponents had argued the measure was needed because it was difficult to hold drivers criminally accountable when they kill or injure someone while using a cellphone.
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What? We the cyclists pay the most? Oh my gawd here we go again.
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Chris515.
Long ago in South Fla, I heard a call go out on the Police radio." Moterist stoped at red light,is reporting that a man on a bicycle for no reason took out his tire pump and proceeded to break out all of said moterist's headlights and windows in the vehicle. Bicycle last seen ect ect"
Now I was a bicyclist at the time and tho I couldn't condone what the biker had done, I sure as heck could understand it. It made my day. Never located the biker though. Made my day.
How's that for a little 'Justice'?.
Dave.
Long ago in South Fla, I heard a call go out on the Police radio." Moterist stoped at red light,is reporting that a man on a bicycle for no reason took out his tire pump and proceeded to break out all of said moterist's headlights and windows in the vehicle. Bicycle last seen ect ect"
Now I was a bicyclist at the time and tho I couldn't condone what the biker had done, I sure as heck could understand it. It made my day. Never located the biker though. Made my day.
How's that for a little 'Justice'?.
Dave.
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Chris515.
Long ago in South Fla, I heard a call go out on the Police radio." Moterist stoped at red light,is reporting that a man on a bicycle for no reason took out his tire pump and proceeded to break out all of said moterist's headlights and windows in the vehicle. Bicycle last seen ect ect"
Now I was a bicyclist at the time and tho I couldn't condone what the biker had done, I sure as heck could understand it. It made my day. Never located the biker though. Made my day.
How's that for a little 'Justice'?.
Dave.
Long ago in South Fla, I heard a call go out on the Police radio." Moterist stoped at red light,is reporting that a man on a bicycle for no reason took out his tire pump and proceeded to break out all of said moterist's headlights and windows in the vehicle. Bicycle last seen ect ect"
Now I was a bicyclist at the time and tho I couldn't condone what the biker had done, I sure as heck could understand it. It made my day. Never located the biker though. Made my day.
How's that for a little 'Justice'?.
Dave.
If the motorist had done that I can bet you a lot of posters here would be screaming revenge on the motorist even though it was the cyclist going berserk.
So no, I can't recommend a cyclist doing that to a car. If you have the time to smash out lights and windows then you have the time to take a license plate number and call the cops to register your complaint about the motorist's behavior.
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