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Who is texting and driving? You'd be surprised..
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28/01/2011 22:09:34
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>http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/01/28/article/most_nc_texting_charges_come_from_drivers_over_25
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>Teenagers aren't the only ones to blame for erratic driving tied to cell phones. Most of the motorists ticketed under North Carolina's new texting ban are actually over the age of 25, and some are over the age of 60.
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>More than 1,200 drivers in North Carolina have been charged with texting-while-driving since the law went into effect in December 2009. Here's a look at the number of motorists charged, broken down by age group:
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> * 16-25: 612 tickets
> * 26-35: 379 tickets
> * 36-45: 192 tickets
> * 46-55: 59 tickets
> * 56-65: 15 tickets
> * 66-75: 2 tickets
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I don't know why you are surprised. When stupid people get older they are still stupid.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
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