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12-13-2011, 12:28 PM
The recommendation from the safety board followed a hearing on a Missouri highway crash on Aug. 5, 2010, which killed two people and injured 38. The chain-reaction crash of four vehicles included two school buses.
Schatz's truck was then rear-ended by a school bus, which was rear-ended by another school bus. The buses, which investigators found had brake problems, carried members of the John F. Hodge High School band. A student, Jessica Brinker, 15, who sat in the last row of the first bus, died in the crash.
"Two lives lost in the blink of an eye," said Deborah Hersman, the board chairman. "No call, no text, no update is worth a life."
This is becoming the new DUI," said Robert Sumwalt, a member of the safety board. "It's becoming an epidemic."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-13/ntsb-cellphone-ban-driving/51874966/1?loc=interstitialskip
Schatz's truck was then rear-ended by a school bus, which was rear-ended by another school bus. The buses, which investigators found had brake problems, carried members of the John F. Hodge High School band. A student, Jessica Brinker, 15, who sat in the last row of the first bus, died in the crash.
"Two lives lost in the blink of an eye," said Deborah Hersman, the board chairman. "No call, no text, no update is worth a life."
This is becoming the new DUI," said Robert Sumwalt, a member of the safety board. "It's becoming an epidemic."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-13/ntsb-cellphone-ban-driving/51874966/1?loc=interstitialskip