The city council is expected to vote on a proposed ordinance at Thursday's meeting.
A vote Thursday night by the Huntsville city council could make it illegal to hold a phone while driving a vehicle in the Rocket City.
“You think, ‘How many of these were because of distractions,’” Little said. “It’s real hard to track that data because you basically have to have a court order saying I want to look at your cell phone records unless the person that caused the wreck fesses up to say, ‘I was on my phone.’”appears to confirm Little’s point. A city analysis of traffic accidents from 2017-2022 attributed only 0.6 percent of all accidents to “distracted by use of electronic communication device.
For Little, this is a personal issue. He and his family were in a head-on collision in 2008 with a distracted driver who Little said acknowledged being on their phone. Little spent two weeks in the hospital and several more weeks in a wheelchair. Since then, he has worked as an advocate to stop distracted driving and had visions of introducing his ordinance last year when he was running for the council.
The new state law, which went into effect in June, calls for a $50 fine on the first offense and a driver can only be charged if stopped for another violation, such as speeding.
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