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Texting While Driving In Nevada

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In Nevada, there was a law that was created for drivers, which was no texting, and talking on the phone while driving. Texting or operating a handheld device while behind the wheel distracts driver’s attention off the road, the driver loses its focus and ends up getting a ticket or worse into a car accident.In Nevada, there was an estimate of about 3,500 distraction- related car crashes in Nevada annually, that's more than twenty percent of car accidents happening on the road each year.What it means that there are many ways a driver could be distracted for example it's not just texting that's distracting drivers, but going on the internet on the phone or even talking could make a driver be distracted at all time without paying attention to the road, resulting into crashing the car. …show more content…

On January 1, 2012, a law was passed for all drivers no matter what age they were it was intended for all drivers, it was the no texting while driving, this law banned texting while driving, using a hand-held cell phone behind the wheel but not just cell phones were banned, it also included hand-held electronics while operating a vehicle. With this law , it included the NVDOT’S “ Zero Fatalities” program which promoted awareness to Nevada drivers to think twice before touching that cell phone.Those are the consequences if caught texting while driving and not everyone will be happy getting that ticket and should have waited to get to their destination before touching that cell

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