RE: Driving With Cell Phones

[Mark Hilbush <markh@clark.net>]

> From: "Greg Koehler (Volt Computer)" <a-gregk@microsoft.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:24:42 -0800
> Subject: Driving With Cell Phones
> 
> I was watching the news last night with that story about how driving
> with cell phones supposedly increases your risk of an accident 4-5
> times.  Apparently it doesn't matter whether you are holding a phone or
> if it is a hands-free setup, reason being that your mind is
> concentrating on the conversation rather than the road.  

Last year I was sitting on the freeway stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic when, wham, I'm rear-ended by someone not paying attention to what she was doing.  I was talking on my phone when it happened.  How'd she know?  ;^)

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Mark Hilbush
Baltimore, MD
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