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Police officers are worried they lack the right powers and resources to properly investigate whether a mobile phone was being used by a driver at the time of a crash, a new study has found.
Four out of five collision investigators surveyed for the research indicated mobile phone involvement in non-fatal accidents was under-reported, with half agreeing the role of phones was even overlooked in fatal crashes.
Three quarters of British officers participating in the online poll undertaken by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) were unable to report the full proportion of road accidents in their force area linked with mobile phone use each year. A similar percentage of officers indicated that better mechanisms to quickly analyse and investigate phone usage would be most likely to improve data collection.
(Score: 2) by BK on Monday November 28 2016, @03:11AM
Most of the studies that I've seen that look credible focus on texting. Most of those use popular touch screen devices, inevitably iphones, which is why i commented about the touch interfaces now in so many cars. Your 'walk into poles' people are usually texting. I'm not aware of a well controlled study of talking on the phone vs having my (now) ex- wife in the car (or some other suitable distraction that requires attention as a matter of life and death).
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday November 29 2016, @05:44PM
Yes, texting is even more stupid than talking. The zombie apocalypse is upon us!
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