By Leftlane Staff
Friday, Jun 2nd, 2006 @ 11:19 am

A cell phone ban proposed in Lawrence, KS would be the strictest in the country, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. The proposed Lawrence ordinance — up for discussion Monday by the Traffic Safety Commission — would ban the use of both hand-held cell phones and hands-free cell phone devices by motorists. “That would be a first in this country,� said Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. “If you pass a ban that just prohibits the hand-held devices, you’re sending a message that the hands-free devices are safe, and that is false,� said Paul Atchley, an associate professor of psychology at Kansas University and one of the leading researchers of cell phones and motorists.

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