{"id":840,"date":"2017-04-14T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraldlawgroupcom.local\/?p=840"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T21:22:59","slug":"driving-under-the-influence-of-electronics-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/driving-under-the-influence-of-electronics-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Under the Influence of Electronics Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deaths from distracted driving have been on the rise nationwide and in Washington state. In the U.S., distracted driving caused 3,477 traffic deaths in 2015, a 9 percent increase from the year before, and \u201ca deadly epidemic,\u201d according to the National Safety Council (NSC). In Washington. distracted-driving deaths jumped from 130 in 2014 to 171 in 2015, nearly a third of the overall 556 traffic fatalities in 2016.<\/p>\n

Washington State legislators have introduced a bill intended to stop this trend. House Bill 1371, known as the Driving Under the Influence of Electronics Act<\/a>, would increase penalties for drivers caught using their phones. It would also require that these offenses be reported to courts and insurance companies. Washington currently has a law against texting while driving, carrying a fine of $124, and citations for texting while behind the wheel are not currently reported to the courts or insurance companies. The new law would increase the fine to $350, and would cover use of phones other than texting.<\/p>\n

Numerous studies have demonstrated the significant effects of using phones while driving. One study showed that drivers distracted by their phones have reaction times equivalent to someone whose blood-alcohol level is two-and-a-half times the legal limit. A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says that even built-in, voice-activated systems can impair brain focus for up to 15 to 27 seconds.<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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Deaths from distracted driving have been on the rise nationwide and in Washington state. In the U.S., distracted driving caused 3,477 traffic deaths in 2015, a 9 percent increase from the year before, and \u201ca deadly epidemic,\u201d according to the National Safety Council (NSC). In Washington. distracted-driving deaths jumped from 130 in 2014 to… Read More »<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldlawgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}