{"id":3506,"date":"2010-01-29T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:19:47","slug":"study-shows-cell-phone-ban-does-not-improve-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3506\/study-shows-cell-phone-ban-does-not-improve-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Cell Phone Ban Does Not Improve Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, can Californians get rid of it?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/california-cellphone-rules-dont-appear-to-be-reducing-car-accidents-study-finds.html \" target=\"_blank\">After all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new study from the nonprofit Highway Loss Data Institute found that rates of crashes before and after the landmark law took effect in 2008 have not significantly changed. It also found that the trend of California\u2019s crashes before and after the law followed that of neighboring states &#8212; like Arizona and Nevada &#8212; that do not have bans on hand-held phones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe laws aren\u2019t reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws have reduced hand-held phone use, and several studies have established that phoning while driving increases crash risk,\u201d Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and its affiliate, the data institute, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m just saying, it seems like the science\/evidence\/proof\/etc. is pretty settled\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, can Californians get rid of it?\u00a0 After all: A new study from the nonprofit Highway Loss Data Institute found that rates of crashes before and after the landmark law took effect in 2008 have not significantly changed. It also found that the trend of California\u2019s crashes before and after the law followed that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,788],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-cell-phone-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}