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Toronto police’s unusual anti-mobile phone campaign

Do you take the dangers of texting at the wheel seriously? Are you convinced your driving isn’t affected by using your phone?

Police in Toronto, Canada have borrowed a hearse from a local funeral director this week to employ shock tactics, using it to pull mobile-using motorists over and then showing them footage of their erratic driving as part of the week long “That Text or Call Could End It All” campaign.

With 55,000 people charged with “distracted driving” in the city between 2010-2012 this is a problem that urgently needs addressing - what measures do you think police could take in this country to make people think twice about using their phone on the road?

Read more here http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014...and_drive.html

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