US Traffic Safety Administration hid cellphone danger

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tried to sit on studies which proved that cellphone use presented a significant danger to drivers.

The agency kept out of public view hundreds of pages of research and warnings about the dangers of driving while using cell phones.

The Administration had conducted a long-term study of 10,000 drivers to address the safety risk of using cell phones while driving in 2003.


However it was starting to show that cell phone use was a major factor in traffic accidents.

It looked like the highway safety agency estimated that cell phone use by drivers caused about 955 deaths and 240,000 accidents in 2002.

But the information seemed to indicate that it was not just people holding a cell phone that was causing the accidents but actually talking on the phone, hands-free or not.

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