I’m a frequent driver of I-85, I-40 and the Durham Freeway. Based on looking into the cars who regularly drift toward my lane and/or speed up and slow down at odd times, it is clear that children pose the greatest distraction to a driver. Not cell phones – children.
Even with that in mind, we don’t need a law to tell us not to text or check e-mail while driving, or to tell us it’s crazy to attempt a Linda-Blair-like head spin to keep kids in line while in the car. Yet, now comes another effort — this time from the well intentioned but misguided nanny-staters in Chapel Hill — to do just that. Pay special note to the last several paragraphs of the WRAL story. It refutes the argument that bans lead to fewer insurance claims.
