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Police Cracking Down on Cell Phone Usage While Driving in Staten Island

Today will begin an effort by Staten Island police to be take extra steps to crackdown on drivers who use talk or text on their cell phones while driving.  These days are known as "Cell phone crackdown days" and when New York City has run them in the past they have averaged a number of 6,500 to 8,000 tickets for all boroughs combined in a 24-hour period.  Starting today everyday in Staten Island will be a "cell phone crackdown day"

Texting and driving and talking and driving are illegal in Staten Island and throughout the state of New York but on "cell phone crack down" days police put special focus on pulling over drivers who are on their phones.  Each ticket for using a cell phone while driving is $130. 

Distracted driving is one of the highest reasons for car accidents and is dangerous accounting for many lives and injuries that have left lives changed which is why it is illegal to drive and talk or drive and text in New York. Do the right thing and only use your phone hands free which means use voice activated dialing and leave your phone on speaker phone or use a bluetooth or other headphones if you need to make a call while driving. As for texting some phones come with talk to text programs that allow you to speak what you want to text to someone. Otherwise wait until you are done driving or if it is urgent pull over to the side of the road and make your call or text and then continue driving.