According to a report by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which offers an app to motorists to track their road habits, 50 percent of New York drivers are reported to be on their cell phones while driving.
This I find sad, troubling and dangerous. The other day my wife Eva was driving with myself in the passengers seat in Bellerose, when a car in front of us all of a sudden decides to change lanes without signaling while she was on her cell phone.
Now meanwhile this young woman had two kids and a dog in her car.
My wife said to me,” What could this woman be thinking?”
Was this phone call so important that she was willing to risk everyone’s life?
Now I ‘m a senior citizen and fully realize the dangers on the road and needs my full attention while I’m driving. When my cell phone rings and I’m driving, I respond to it when I reach a spot where I can pull over and stop and then respond to that call.
I wish more people would do the same. I believe Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program ought to be extended to drivers who are on the phone while driving.
I don’t really care if its hands-free because the person’s attention is not on the road but on that phone call. Our roads need to be kept safer with more people using common sense.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
Mineola
