I just had another close call at lunch today. I was traveling in the right-hand turn lane nearing an intersection (the road has 4 lanes northbound at this point, 1 left turn only, 2 straight, and 1 right-turn only lane). There was a lady speaking on her cell phone directly beside me in the lane that continues straight. When I got to the intersection and was nearly at the point of turning right, she decided to turn right from her lane as though I wasn't there. We were so close that I could see her face. She looked at me like I was in the wrong place and in her way. Sheesh! Too many of these close calls with cell phone users these days. I'm not sure she ever realized that she was in the wrong lane and attempting to cross traffic to turn right! Time to turn them OFF!



>>>Only in some states but I think it will be illegal in all states eventually. It will be enforced too because states love collecting monies from fines...
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>>In Tennessee it's not illegal, but I fear you are right. I don't think the government should be able to tell me I can't talk on the phone when driving. As you have already pointed out, it's the "distracted driver" problem, not the cell phone. We already have laws on the books that deal with not paying attention, so we don't need to be writing more.
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>Say, with the state-of-the-art technology, if I saw a guy in my mirror chatting a few seconds before he rammed me, would it help to ask the investigators to pull his LUD and then sue him to infinity? IOW, would the information that he was on the phone at the time of accident, and that the phone was in the same area (specially if it's one of these new GPS enabled phones), would be proof enough that he wasn't paying attention and should pay me instead?