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   From: twsherman@REMOVE_THISsouthslope.net   
      
   On 3/10/2014 2:22 AM, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   >    People were having car accidents LONG before there were cell phones.   
   > If cell phones were particularly dangerous the highways would be awash   
   > in blood.  But they aren't.  Think about it. 15 years ago hardly   
   > anyone had a cell phone.  Now EVERYONE has one and a lot of them are   
   > used while driving.  Yet over that same 15 years the accident and   
   > fatality rate has continued is slow reduction with less and less   
   > accidents every year.  Yet we are to believe that cell phone users are   
   > this HUGE deadly menace and there are MILIOONS and MILLIONS of them   
   > out there driving around.  The statistics simply don't support the   
   > "sky is falling" nonsense put out by the idiots.   
      
   But you forget other factors such as better handling vehicles, better   
   passive safety, and most importantly, much lower rates of inebriated   
   driving.  Back to Statistics 101.   
      
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