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This bill requires accident reports in New York to state whether a mobile phone was in use during the accident.
Why it matters
Aims to improve data collection on distracted driving. by requiring accident reports to specify if a mobile phone was in use, potentially revealing the true extent of phone-related crashes.
Could impact insurance rates, law enforcement, and public safety campaigns. by providing more accurate statistics on mobile phone involvement in accidents, shaping future policy and resource allocation.
May influence driver behavior. by increasing awareness that mobile phone use during accidents will be officially recorded, potentially serving as a deterrent for using phones while driving.
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Report Phone Use in Crashes
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- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3569
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of the accident
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police officer or judicial officer within five days after such accident. Every coroner, or other official performing like functions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to all deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or motorcycle accidents. Such report shall include information on the width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in length and which are involved in such accidents, whether such accident took place in a work area and whether it was being operated with an overweight or overdimension permit. Such report shall distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable restraint system inflated and deployed. Such report shall distinctly indicate and include information as to whether a mobile telephone, as such term is defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c of this chapter, was in use at the time of said accident. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to preclude a police officer from
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reporting any other accident which, in the judgment of such police officer, would be required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a vehicle pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
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