Hmmmmm........

If fines for distracted driving reduce the frequency of crashes related to distracted driving; than we should see a drastic reduction in crashes related to distracted driving as well as citations issued for distracted driving.

Related studies

This video is from Pennsylvania news station about study results for cell phone bans and distracted driving(sorry for the hyperlink, embed has been disabled for this video)

Pennsylvania news video

Another video of research, this time it's an Oprah production

Distracted driving test by Oprah

I thought I'd check out some other countries laws

Here's a list of countries and when their bans went into effect... 

I wonder how it has affected accident rates in those countries...

Article about britans ban in '03

America doesn't even have a nation wide legislation on cell phone use while driving.

Detailed Distracted Driving stats over ther last five years

These statistics are a nationwide snap shot of traffic accidents and the percent of which are reported to have been driver distraction related

Mythbusters study of distracted driving

These are clips of A Mythbusters episode where they tested weather or not distracted driving is worse than Drunk Driving

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3

Welcome to Distracted driving awareness month(April)!

April is Distracted driving Awareness month, what does the government say about distracted driving and do study numbers back it up?
See page nine in this PDF provided by the NHTSA on a 100 car study, I don't think it's a large enough sample personally.


NHTSA study of distracted driving
More data from distraction.gov
PDF file from KY state police with broken down 2010 stats 

Distracted driving WTF?

Do distractions like cell phones really increase the risk of crashing out?