{"id":441,"date":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/cell-phone-use-increases-despite-safety-warnings\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:31","slug":"cell-phone-use-increases-despite-safety-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cell-phone-use-increases-despite-safety-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone use increases despite safety warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive in the state of New York, chances are that you know that using your cell phone while driving is against the law. The same would apply if you were driving in New Jersey or Connecticut as well. The laws are likely a result of public pressure to limit the number of accidents caused by distracted driving.<\/p>\n<p>And for the most part, the public has responded. According to a recent State Farm Insurance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/11\/18\/more-drivers-surfing-emailing\/19182983\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, fewer people are talking on their cell phones while driving. However, more people are accessing the Internet. Researchers indicated that in 2009, 13 percent of drivers polled indicated that they surfed while behind the wheel; but today, 26 percent said that they were on the Internet while driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A number of people polled indicated that they accessed email accounts while driving, and others said that checking social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter were important. State Farm\u2019s director of technology research explained to USA Today that he did not understand why people would continue to engage in such risky behavior, but it may be the popularity of smartphones that may be a contributor to this trend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cell-phone-use-increases-despite-safety-warnings\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Cell phone use increases despite safety warnings\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive in the state of New York, chances are that you know that using your cell phone while driving is against the law. The same would apply if you were driving in New Jersey or Connecticut as well. The laws are likely a result of public pressure to limit the number of accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cell phone use increases despite safety warnings &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 2, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cell phone use increases despite safety warnings - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/cell-phone-use-increases-despite-safety-warnings\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cell phone use increases despite safety warnings &#8212; 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