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North Carolina Distracted Driving Laws

As I’ve mentioned before, North Carolina has passed a new texting while driving law set to go into effect this December. The law bans texting while driving, and imposes penalties if caught. North Carolina still does not ban the use of cell phones entirely, except for young drivers. Now there’s word that the United States…

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Texting While Driving in North Carolina

Until fairly recently, North Carolina did not have a specific law that made “texting-while-driving” a crime.  But it arrived: Gov. Bev Perdue signed a law in June that will make texting while driving illegal as of December 1, 2009. The law will be a new charge for drivers to deal with and a new charge…

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