I received a ticket in Silver Spring, Md, 15 years ago for doing exactly
that, wearing headphones. Given the prevelance of the old car phones at
the time, I
went to court to contest it. The judge, not a dope at all, said, you
broke the law so you must pay a fine. "The fine is court costs only."
I don't think that act needs an interpretation.
BillS
'76B w/HIF's
BMCSNJ
Here in New Jersey, using hand held cell phones while driving becomes a
'fineable' offense this Thursday. Yippee.
(The yippee is because I am a sensory biologist and know from a number of
studies - and personal experiences with talkers - that one is
significantly distracted
while talking on a cell phone in a manner
different from listening to the radio or even talking to the person next
to you while driving.)
On
Sat, 26 Jun 2004, David Breneman wrote:
> --- Eric <eric@erickson.on.net> wrote:
> >
> > Get yourself something with a headphone socket (some do have them).
> >
> > On my LONG drives (hours at 70mph0 I have really enjoyed using
> > headphones.
>
> Interesting. Here in Washington it's illegal for a driver to
> wear headphones, and that's not a recent law by many decades.
> I'd always assumed that that was a fairly universal restriction,
> for the sake of hearing sirens, horns, etc. What are the rules
> in other jurisdictions?
>
>
> =====
> David Breneman david_breneman@yahoo.com
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