| Speakerphones are not handsfree |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 04 February 2008 | |
  
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He said the SA Government would initiate a national process, through the Australian Transport Council, to gain agreement of other States to any change. Last November as part of a strategy to achieve a 40 percent cut the road toll by 2010 Zollo launched a multimedia advertising campaign that highlighted the dangers of driver inattention, with the focus firmly on cellphone usage. She claimed police records showed "an alarming increase in the number of people being fined for using a handheld mobile over the past five years." The number was 4389 in 2002/3 and rose steadily ot 6210 in 2006/7. Zollo said: "In 2006, inattention was reported as the cause of 27 percent of fatal crashes and 42 percent of serious crashes...[but] research by the Motor Accident Commission found that around one third of people didn't identify mobile phone use as inattentive behaviour. |
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