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Drive Now, Talk Later

Non-Scientific Evidence

Actual Driving and Talking Accidents
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Bored by all the studies? We can't blame you. Here, then, are first-hand accounts of people who have been rear-ended, T-boned, and have had every other sort of collision imaginable... because someone else was talking on a cell phone --- instead of looking where he or she was going.
Patti Pena's story
Attention cold-hearted policy specialists: think the economic gains of driving and talking are worth the losses? Tell that to Patti Pena.
Stories From The Road
New Letters
The mailroom here at Car Talk Plaza overfloweth, as we continue to sort through thousands of cell phone missives. Are we freedom-hating commies... or saviors of the free world? Read our mail.

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