Although a majority of South Carolina’s legislators have shown support for a statewide ban on texting while driving as a public safety issue, a Senate panel has decided that it will postpone acting on a proposed ban until at least 2014.
State senators who backed the proposed ban on texting while driving say they will use the additional time to make improvements to the legislation so that it can be presented again in 2014.
As currently written, the proposal would not allow a person to drive a vehicle while using a wireless communications device to write, send or read a text-based message. It would apply to cell phones, PDAs, tablets and other small computers. South Carolina is one of 11 states without a law banning text messaging by drivers.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 3,331 people died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2011 and an additional 387,000 people suffered injuries. Those numbers represent increases from the previous year.
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