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Texting While Driving Law: Letter to the Editor

California’s new ban on using hand-held devices while driving takes only a baby step in the right direction. For a first infraction, the base fine is $20, less than a parking ticket in many towns. And the new law doesn’t prohibit such uses of digital devices as watching videos on dashboard-mounted smartphones. What message does … Continue reading “Texting While Driving Law: Letter to the Editor”

Last-drink reports in Massachusetts ‘are fairly low numbers, but they’re probably the tip of an iceberg’

January 1, 2017 — Boston Sunday Globe:  “[A] review of 8,364 so-called place of last drink reports collected by Massachusetts courts after convictions for operating under the influence….offer only a small window into the drunken driving problem in Massachusetts: About 15,000 to 16,500 people a year are arraigned on drunken driving charges in Massachusetts, according … Continue reading “Last-drink reports in Massachusetts ‘are fairly low numbers, but they’re probably the tip of an iceberg’”