{"id":655,"date":"2011-01-21T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2011-01-21T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:02:08","slug":"oklahoma-to-consider-texting-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/oklahoma-to-consider-texting-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma To Consider Texting Ban?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma may be the next state jumping on the bandwagon to ban texting while driving if a new House bill passes. State Representative Danny Morgan (D &#8211; Prague) introduced the new bill on Wednesday, accompanied by law enforcement officers, health officials, and executives from insurance and wireless telephone companies. <\/p>\n<p>Morgan&#8217;s measure, better known as House Bill 1316, would make it a criminal violation for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/article-buying-teenager-car.htm\">anyone aged eighteen or under<\/a> to use a cell phone while driving (except in emergencies) and would prohibit <em>all<\/em> drivers from texting while driving or using a cell phone in school crossing zones or construction zones. <\/p>\n<p>All violations would be a primary offense. <\/p>\n<p>Morgan says he feels there will be bipartisan support for the measure, and dismissed any notion that such a bill represents an infringement on personal liberty. He told the press that driving in Oklahoma is a responsibility and not, &#8220;&#8230; a God-given right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Representative Sue Tibbs (R &#8211; Tulsa) is a principal co-author of the bill. <\/p>\n<p>George Brown, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said that texting while driving has led to numerous fatalities in his state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma may be the next state jumping on the bandwagon to ban texting while driving if a new House bill passes. State Representative Danny Morgan (D &#8211; Prague) introduced the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,43,117],"tags":[372,299],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distracted-driving","category-oklahoma-car-insurance","category-technology","tag-distracted-driving","tag-oklahoma","cat-25-id","cat-43-id","cat-117-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}