New Zealand refuses to ban cell phones

 
Date: 2003-01-05

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The New Zealand Land Transport Safety Authority has excluded banning cell phone use while driving from a list of proposed law changes recently put up for public consultation. Research does show that cell phone use is distracting, says the LTSA, but hand-held and hand-free phones are equally distracting. Enforcing laws against hand-free phone use would be too difficult, the Authority maintains. It would be difficult to prove someone was using a cellphone at any given time, without corresponding law changes that required users to disclose phone numbers to police and empowered police to access and search cellphone records. At the same time, there is insufficient evidence to show that making it an offence would reduce crash rates.

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