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According to the Florida Highway Safety Motor Vehicles Department, distracted driving causes over 50,000 vehicle accidents every year. EverQuote Inc., an online insurance company, says that 92 percent of our nation’s drivers have used cell phones while in a moving vehicle in the last 30 days.

Both the Florida House and Senate worked on bills during this legislative session to try to change driver behavior when using cell phones.

The Florida House voted 104-9 on House Bill 107 which changes texting while driving from a secondary offense to a primary offense. As a secondary offense, a driver has to be pulled over for some other reason before he or she can be cited for texting behind the wheel. Representative Emily Slosberg, a co-sponsor of HB 107, said, “This bill is about one thing, saving lives.”

The Florida Senate also addressed this issue. Senator Wilton Simpson from District 10, along with 10 other senators, introduced a bill on November 11, 2018 titled “Driving While Using a Wireless Communications Device.” The original bill focused on texting while driving, but there have been edits to the bill to expand it to include any use of a wireless device while driving.

House Bill 107 making driving while texting a primary offense passed and Governor DeSantis signed the bill into law. It will become effective July 1, 2019.

It is important that everyone on our roads drives undistracted. It only takes a moment of inattention to result in an accident, injuring or killing others.

The Florida Highway Safety Motor Vehicles Department says there are three categories of driver distraction: visual, manual and cognitive.

Texting while driving combines all three types of distraction, which makes it one of the most dangerous of distracted-driving behaviors.

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