# NTSB recommands ban on driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic device

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [December 13, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntsb-recommands-ban-on-driver-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-portable-electronic-device/261751 "2011-12-13T11:10:23Z")
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### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntsb-recommands-ban-on-driver-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-portable-electronic-device/261751/18 "2011-12-13T19:52:28Z")

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This was the accident that pushed the deicision

> Investigators found he’d sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes leading up to the accident. The driver was killed in the chain-reaction crash, as was a 15-year-old student on one of two school buses involved. Thirty-eight other people were injured.

> [@WTB: BIKE 4500$ price range](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-bike-4500-price-range/47181/14):
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> I think thats a great idea, because people with the big bucks could care less about a small $150 fine.

You mean to tell me a small fine won’t cause this guy to park properly?

> **[This is why people think Bugatti drivers are asshats](https://jalopnik.com/this-is-why-people-think-bugatti-drivers-are-asshats-5863081)**
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> In a flagrant demonstration of being richer than you, a Veyron driver got a ticket for parking in a disabled spot today. The Daily Mail reported that the driver wasn't exactly concerned with the cost of his ticket, picked up in a very rich corner of...

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> In a flagrant demonstration of being richer than you, a Veyron driver got a ticket for parking in a disabled spot today. [The Daily Mail reported](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066828/Bugatti-Veyron-owner-gets-ticket-parking-disabled-space-Essex.html) that the driver wasn’t exactly concerned with the cost of his ticket, picked up in a very rich corner of Essex, UK.

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