Distracted Driving Laws

As popularity in mobile devices increase, the amount of car accidents has increased over the past years. And even though New Hampshire is making the effort to end distracted driving and car accidents, the law against using a handheld device is pretty difficult to enforce. Every person using their phones cannot be stopped and spoken to, this means many people still do it and have the risk of getting in an accident. New Hampshire does have many provisions when it comes to distracted driving. NH has a law in place that makes using handheld devices, such as cell phones, while driving punishable by law. While drivers can use hands-free devices, like speaker phone and a cars Bluetooth system, car accidents have decreased. New Hampshire strives to strongly enforce laws in hopes of decreasing the amount of accidents influenced by mobile device usage.
There are exceptions for anyone making a 911 call… or using a Bluetooth-enabled or other hands-free device (NH Law).” A similar law says that a driver may only read a message and select or enter a phone number for a call; they cannot type a text message. Though these laws seem contradictory to each other, an article says, “The state police claim that driving-related deaths caused by ‘distracted driving’ are going down (MacDonald).” As presented, New Hampshire is making an effort to decrease distracted driving, but could the state do