Police to Focus Ticketing Efforts on Texting While Driving
Each month the Santa Monica Police Department concentrates its traffic enforcement efforts on one bad driving habit—November is texting while driving.
Santa Monica police will concentrate on ticketing drivers talking or texting on cellphones in November.
Using cellphones while driving is regarded as a major cause of traffic collisions, Sgt. Richard Lewis of the Santa Monica Police Department said on Tuesday.
Laws against drivers using cellphones went into effect in 2008, one of the first in the nation. The following year, a texting ban was passed by California legislators.
Each month the department concentrates its traffic enforcement efforts on one bad driving habit, Lewis said.
Although there are a lot of bad habits on the road. Texting is one that poses a lot of risks. Even if you are a safe driver and you have this habit, you're not a safe driver at all. I think it's better that drivers would have no idea on what the police are focused into on a certain month so that everyone would be cautious about every rule and not just one.
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