Published on Thursday, October 16, 2008
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
No police in sight.
Your elbow bends, and the phone goes to your ear. You just broke the law.
California Highway Patrol officers have issued more than 20,000 tickets to drivers who violated a new state law that requires them to use a hands-free device when talking on a cell phone. But many appear to be ignoring the law, which went into effect July 1.
"There are still people, despite all the publicity this has garnered, who still don't get it," said Tom Marshall, a CHP spokesman in Sacramento.
"When the law first took effect, people were adhering to the law," said officer Tom Killian, a spokesman for the CHP's Modesto-area office. "As we got further away from July 1, people start going back to their old habits."
He said it was hard for officers to find violators in July but now they see people using their phones every day.
Killian said it seems people still don't realize they need to focus all their attention on driving and cell phones are the most common distraction
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