In reaction to deadly highway accident in D.C. area last week, Na...
In reaction to deadly highway accident in D.C. area last week, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators for first time are zeroing in on role that cellphone potentially played. Federal agency said it planned to examine cellphone use in…
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crash cases with eye to possibly issuing recommendations. Fatal crash took place Fri. when 20-year-old woman lost control of her car on Capitol Beltway. News reports said she talking on cellphone when her sport utility vehicle jumped guardrail and landed in oncoming traffic, killing herself and 4 others. Month ago, NTSB began probing crash in Ill. in “pilot investigation” in effort to understand how to pursue cellphone issue, spokesman said: “In the future, if we are notified of an accident where cellphone use is suspected very early on and we have the resources, we will investigate. We want to investigate a number of these to see if we can gather enough information to render some adequate safety recommendations.” Spokesman said “we have been interested in the driver distraction issue for a long time,” but “we had never looked into the cellphone issue per se.” Accidents where cellphone is cited as factor have been getting significant publicity and local jurisdictions have been debating whether to impose restrictions on use in cars, he said. “We felt that this would be a good time for us to weigh in on what is apparently becoming a national transportation safety issue.”