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State law targets texting and driving
More than half of high school seniors admit to activity, CDC study finds
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A teen’s phone buzzes and beeps. “One new message” appears on the screen. Checking that message, according to distraction.gov, at 55 miles per hour will take that teen’s eyes off the road for 4.4 seconds, or, as the site states, it would be “like driving an entire football field blindfolded.”