Number of Mass. drivers ticketed for texting while driving has sharply increased
Police wrote 6,131 tickets last year, up from 1,153 in 2011.
The number of drivers ticketed for texting behind the wheel on Massachusetts roadways has sharply increased, reports The Boston Globe.
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Police wrote 6,131 tickets for the offense last year, up from 1,153 tickets in 2011.
“As a culture, we are more and more ‘addicted’ to staying in touch at all times,” Kara Macek, spokeswoman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, told the Globe.
The biggest offenders? Men and drivers age 40 and younger.
Distraction-related crashes killed 3,179 people and injured about 431,000 in 2014, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Read the full story in the Globe.
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