{"id":3674,"date":"2011-06-22T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:08:07","slug":"culture-of-used-cell-phones-and-driving-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/culture-of-used-cell-phones-and-driving-needs-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Used Cell Phones and Driving Needs to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Driving1.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1302\" title=\"Driving\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Driving1.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1302 lazyload\" title=\"Driving\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Driving1.gif\"><\/a>Yet another example of the deadly link between fatal accidents and distracted driving caused by having used cell phones while in operation of a vehicle has been provided by a fatal crash between a barge and a tour boat which killed two people and endangered 35 others, throwing them into the water, which occurred when the mate who was piloting the tug boat was using a cell phone.<br>\n\u201cMany people continue to think it\u2019s just going to take a moment,\u201d notes Deborah Hersman, the chairwoman of the National Transport and Safety Board, which met in Washington in the United States yesterday.&nbsp; \u201cHow do we change that mindset?&nbsp; Not just the NTSB, but all of us?\u201d<br>\nTug pilot Matt Devlin made and got no less than 21 calls on his old cell phone in the two and a half hours he was at the wheel of the tug that was involved in the disaster on the first of July last year.&nbsp; He also changed his location on the vehicle in order to do so, blocking his view of the stalled tour boat into which the vehicle rammed, killing two Hungarian students.&nbsp; Even worse, the deckhand on the tour boat itself was also texting on a cell phone at the time.<br>\n\u201cDistraction is becoming the new DUI,\u201d says NTSB member Robert Sumwalt.&nbsp; \u201cThis is going to reach epidemic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another example of the deadly link between fatal accidents and distracted driving caused by having used cell phones while in operation of a vehicle has been provided by a fatal crash between a barge and a tour boat which killed two people and endangered 35 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