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<br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />create an extreme risk when used by individuals <br /> <br />while operating motor vehicles; <br /> <br />(7) a 2008 study by Nationwide Insurance <br />found that 20 percent of drivers in the United <br />States send text messages while operating motor ve- <br /> <br />hicles; <br /> <br />(8) according to a study by Car and Driver <br /> <br />Magazine, texting while driving is more dangerous <br />than driving while intoxicated; <br /> <br />(9) a recent study by the Virginia Tech Trans- <br /> <br />portation Institute found operators of motor vehicles <br />who sent text messages while driving had a collision <br />risk that was 23 times greater while texting as com- <br /> <br />pared to the risk when the operators were not <br />texting; <br /> <br />(10) another study by the University of Utah <br />found that college students using a driving simulator <br /> <br />were 8 times more likely to have an accident while <br />teA"ting; <br /> <br />(11) after a serIOUS accident occurred on the <br /> <br />Boston public trolley system in May 2009, the trol- <br />ley operator was found to have been teA"ting at the <br /> <br />time of the accident. <br />, <br /> <br />(12) the problem of texting while driving has <br />been recognized across the United States; <br /> <br />.S 1536 IS <br />