HAZARDS OF USING A CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING

The other day I was being driven by my son from Noida to Delhi. The young drive fast. Today, on top of that, there was an unending stream of calls to and from his cell which were being handled, thanks to power steering, sometimes with one hand on, and at others, off the steering wheel.

I was appalled not so much by what was happening in the car,but by what must have been happening in the innumerable cars on the road all crawling and jostling for space and all similarly occupied.

Studies have shown that even the use of speaker phones distracts the attention of the driver increasing the chances of meeting with an accident manyfold.