Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Danger Ahead: Driver on the Phone

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:01:15 -0500

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o the Editor:

Your Dec. 3 front-page article about employer liability for accidents caused by employees using cellphones and other digital devices is a new twist on an old theme. That is, tort lawyers rush in where spineless politicians fear to tread.

While it's fair that injured people get compensated, it would be better if the states enacted real restrictions on distracted driving, with penalties and enforcement procedures that would actually deter someone.
MARTIN A. GOLDBERG
Avon, Conn., Dec. 3, 2002
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To the Editor:

The Harvard study on cellphones and drivers illustrates how cost-benefit analysts can miss the forest for the trees ("The Pros and Cons of Car Cellphones Are Called Equal," news article, Dec. 2).

The real issue is not whether the perceived benefits to the cellphone-using drivers equal or exceed the costs (2,600 estimated highway deaths and 330,000 injuries per year). It's whether those selfish drivers have the right to put my life at risk for their momentary convenience.
EDWARD GROTH III
Pelham, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2002

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