by Amy Norton, HealthDay Reporter, consumer.healthday.com,
3 April 2015
FRIDAY, April 3, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Most U.S. states now have bans on texting while driving, and those laws may be preventing some serious traffic accidents, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that car-crash hospitalizations dipped in states that instituted relatively strict bans on texting and driving between 2003 and 2010.
Overall, the hospitalization rate in those states declined by 7 percent versus states with no bans, the researchers report in the American Journal of Public Health.
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