Tickets lead to safer driving






“The best car safety device

is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”

–– Dudley Moore

It’s great that law enforcement officers in Moorpark are vigorously ticketing motorists for using hand-held cellphones.

We hope they write plenty of tickets.

The hands-free law has been around since July 2008, so ignorance is no excuse.

The crackdown is long overdue.

Far too many people are ignoring the law. They think they can talk with cellphones pressed against their skulls or their thumbs typing away on a text message, and still be safe drivers.

They can’t.

We see lots of bad driving, and too many times when we look, somebody is chatting with a cellphone stuck to his ear. Blue Tooth and other devices at least enable drivers to have both hands on the wheel.

The best law, though, would have outlawed all phone
conversations for drivers of motor vehicles
.

Anytime you’re talking to somebody somewhere else, you are
distracted, whether you’re driving a car or watching TV.

While we’re on a rant, we wish more drivers would also be ticketed for failure to signal their turns and lane changes.

California used to have the best drivers in the world.

Now it seems we have the worst.

And one more thing: It’s illegal to operate windshield wipers without your vehicle lights turned on. It’s a good law, too, but how many of us actually comply?

Traffic officers: It’s high time these lawbreakers learned there’s a consequence for putting others at risk, so take some extra ballpoint pens. We hope you’ll need them.


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