Cell Phone Drivers

Another great bit of flotsam from Resource Shelf: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the proportion of drivers holding cell phones observed was 3% in 2000, 4% in 2002, and 5% in 2004.
      As of 2004 two states--New York and New Jersey-- plus the District of Columbia have laws banning hand-held cell phone use while driving. The NHTSA paper did not talk about local laws, and gives no indication of how many places may have made it illegal by local ordinance, as Santa Fe has done.