Eye on Columbus
Laws Help Curb Texting While Driving
HB 99 in Ohio bans texting while driving.
One issue that constantly comes up at my town hall meetings is the issue of texting while driving. Residents regularly express concern about their safety being jeopardized because another driving is texting behind the wheel. Working together in Columbus, we passed HB 99. The texting while driving ban makes Ohio now the 38th state to enact such a ban. A recent study by the AAA Foundation found that 95 percent of drivers consider others texting and driving to be a serious threat. However, 35 percent admitted to having read or sent a text message while driving in the last month. The findings also showed drivers’ concern for their personal safety from texting drivers (95 percent) is higher than safety concerns about drunk drivers (93 percent…
