Subject:  Germans Ban Cell Phone Use in Autos (DePippo).
Date:     Sat, 30 Oct 1999 093300 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.........Probably a good law -- but has the most important reason
been given???......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:03:14 EDT
From: PDepippo@aol.com
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Germans Ban Cell Phone Use in Autos

Germans Ban Cell Phone Use in Autos

.c The Associated Press

 BERLIN (AP) - Don't drink and drive. But don't speak and drive? That too, 
after a German law banning the use of cell phones while driving takes effect 
next year.

Germany's transport minister told a newspaper that the government plans to 
fine drivers $32 for talking on a cell phone without using a hands-free 
device like a speakerphone.

No exact date was given for the law banning ``handys,'' as cell phones are 
called in German, to take effect.

``Both hands on the wheel, eyes on the street - that's the only way to 
increase safety,'' Transport Minister Reinhard Klimmt said in an interview to 
be published Sunday in Bild am Sonntag.

A 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 
talking on a phone while driving quadrupled the risk of an accident and was 
almost as dangerous as being drunk behind the wheel.

Several other countries have banned the use of cell phones while driving. In 
the United States, the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio began fining 
drivers last month under a cell phone driving ordinance believed to be the 
first in the country.



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