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Bloomington Police Struggle to Enforce New Texting Law

Posted on Jan 31, 2012

Although most traffic safety advocates agree that text messaging while behind the wheel should be illegal, Indiana police say that the new law banning texting while driving is virtually impossible to enforce as it stands.

Six months ago, the state of Indiana banned texting while driving in a new law. However, half a year after the law went into effect, Bloomington Police say they haven’t issued a single ticket for the offense – and not because of a lack of trying. The law states that police may only pull over drivers if they observe the drivers texting, but that the officer may not take the cell phone from the driver to confirm that he or she had been texting or receiving a text.

About 100 drivers across Indiana have been issued tickets or warnings related to texting while driving in the last six months. Each year, about 2,000 serious Indiana car accidents and injuries involve a distracted driver.

This issue comes at the same time that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a recommendation to the 50 states to ban all mobile phone use while driving except in the case of an emergency. A ban on all hands-free devices while driving would be easier to enforce, though Indiana officials say that that law, too, may pose new problems, such as what exactly constitutes an emergency.