CELLCRASH Assignments

CELLCRASH Reporting Assignments
09/12/07
New assignments
Sociology professor – Madeleine Peake
Key legislative votes – Will Prescott
OU students – Jilane Rodgers
Oklahoma political consultants – Spencer Livingston-Gainey
U.S. Cellular Oklahoma people – Tiara Etheridge
SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions – Mary Gray
Still need to assign
More Oklahoma crash incidents & victims
Other phone companies in Oklahoma
Opponents in Legislature
Committee chairmen in Legislature
More sociologists, historians & political scientists to discuss Oklahoma’s reluctance to restrict
Any other experts at OU or elsewhere

Detriot Free Press

By BILL LAITNER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
The Southfield City Council took a step Monday night toward restricting – but not banning – cell-phone use while driving in the city.
By a 6-1 vote, city councilmembers at a study meeting approved sending a proposed ordinance for consideration at a future council meeting, proabably at the Sept. 24 meeting, City Clerk Nancy Banks said Tuesday morning.

CTIA Policies on their site

Here is the link to the policy topics on their site. ya...

SADD Statistics

The Lincoln County News reported some interesting figures from a teen advocacy group on the perils of texting while driving:

...[R]esearch by SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions)... indicated that a good majority of teens are well aware that texting and driving aren't compatible. The national survey of more than 900 teens with driver's licenses from 26 high schools rated instant or text messaging while driving as the biggest distraction (37 percent) while driving. In fact, it was 17 percent higher than "the driver's emotional state" (20 percent) and 18 percent higher than "having several friends in the car." The latter, by the way, is now prohibited among Oklahoma's youngest drivers thanks to Rep. Danny Morgan's graduated driver's license program.

Sadder still is the fact that all of these kids polled by SADD said they picked up their bad habits from their parents. Some 62 percent of the polled teens told researchers their parents talk on a cell phone while driving.
(NOTE: bolding was not in the original story)

Anyone else heard of SADD? We probably need to follow up on this.

UPDATE -- Click here for a SADD press release about this topic.