Texting While Driving Law

 This past Wednesday, Pennsylvania became the 35^th state to ban texting while driving.  Passing both the House and Senate with much bipartisan support, the law makes texting while driving a Primary Offense.  This simply means that someone can be pulled over for texting while driving, as opposed to it being a Secondary Offense, in which the perpetrator would have to be pulled over for a different offense.  According to Governor Corbett, 13,790 crashes were caused by distracted drivers in 2010 alone, and 1,100 involved the use of a handheld messaging or communicating device.

 

Article regarding bill passage - 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-texting-pennsylvania-idUSTRE7A86KB20111109

Actual text of the law - 

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2011&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=314