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Texting While Driving May Soon Be Illegal in Florida

For several years, bills against text messaging while driving have faltered in the Florida Legislature. This year, another bill has been filed again by Sen. Frederica Wilson and Rep. Doug Holder. If the bill is passed, it will make texting while driving illegal and those drivers who text would have to pay a penalty in the amount of $30.

A new study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows that those who text at the wheel are 23 times more likely to cause an accident than those who do not text. Those few seconds that a driver spends looking at a cell phone may change the driver's and other people's lives forever. A texting driver may not see another vehicle or a pedestrian, may cross into the opposite direction lane, or may go off the road. Rep. Holder hopes that the study and the increased awareness about the dangers of texting while driving will help the legislators to make the right choice and vote for the bill. 

Currently, there are 14 states banning texting while operating a motor vehicle. Numerous fatal accidents caused by texters at the wheel have facilitated the passage of laws. Recently, three more states, Illinois, Oregon, and New Hampshire, adopted texting bans that will take effect on January 1, 2010.

For more information, please see:
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Accident attorney, Jeffrey Meldon, strongly believes that public education is the first step in the prevention of and/or recovery from a serious accident. 

He and his Office take pride in their work, and in results they get for their clients.  

The Law Office of Jeffrey Meldon and Associates is a regional law firm that is located in Gainesville, Florida. They are personal injury lawyers, litigators and trial lawyers that have been working to get accident victims the justice they deserve for over 37 years throughout North Florida and all over Florida. Accidents involving a car crash, truck wreck, and motorcycle, bicycle, or pedestrian accidents, dog bites, slip and falls and medical malpractice are all included in their practice as accident attorneys.

They have been proudly representing injured victims in Gainesville, Ocala, Lake City, Inverness, Daytona Beach, Dunnellon, Palatka, The Villages, and the counties of Alachua, Marion, Columbia, Citrus, Volusia, Sumter, Putnam  and the entire North and Central Florida since 1971.

For more information on how they can help you, or any other question you may have, feel free to contact their office at 1 800 373 8000

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