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   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:09:56 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > and as i said before, the cellphone might have not been the cause of   
   > death. a pedestrian on the sidewalk who is on the phone, who just   
   > happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and is hit by an   
   > inattentive or impaired driver, would be counted as a 'cellphone   
   > death'. banning cellphones in cars would not have changed that.   
      
   It bears repeating that the numbers quoted in the "Steiner"   
   supplied article are huge enough to bear further scrutiny.   
      
   If their numbers are even remotely true, we would have to see   
   a correspondingly huge INCREASE in the total number of accidents   
   (normalized as needed for statistical validity).   
      
   We should see a huge change in the number of accidents before   
   cell phones were introduced, and, this number should steadily   
   go up at the same rate as cell phone adoption, and then one   
   would expect them to level off at the current (saturated)   
   rate of cell phone ownership in the United States.   
      
   If not, then I don't know what to make of that eye poppingly   
   huge number of cell-phone-related accidents.   
      
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