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Nine of 10 Americans would support new laws to ban driving while texting, according to new poll

<p>Nine out of ten (89 percent) American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is distracting, dangerous, and should be outlawed, according to a new survey commissioned by Pinger, Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive(R). Similar numbers (91 percent) of adults thought that drivers distracted by sending text messages or mobile email were as dangerous as drivers who had a couple of drinks.</p><p>Even though the overwhelming majority of adults thought driving while texting is dangerous, two in three adults (66 percent) who drive a car and have used text messaging said they had read text messages or emails while they were driving, and 57 percent of the same population admitted to sending text messages or emails from behind the wheel.</p><p>State governments are starting to address the dangers of drivers distracted by text messaging. The state of Washington passed the nation's first ban on texting while driving in May of 2007, and at least six other states including New York, California and Florida are considering similar legislation.</p><p>The survey also revealed that:</p><ul><li>64 percent of adults who admitted to sending text messages while&nbsp;driving were between the ages of 18 and 34, while only 6 percent were&nbsp;55 or older</li><li>Men and women sent text messages while driving at equal rates&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p /> 10 application/xml ban driving while texting business news driving while texting new laws small business small business news texting texting while driving false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 3.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mfmomper false true false false true 189572 false false true false false false true 149173 blog blogsite/FreedomVoice/web