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Texting while driving law
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:55 pm
Does anyone know definitively if it is illegal to use a web browser on a phone while driving in Louisiana? Specifically, looking up a business's phone number on google, since that is what my wife told the officer she was doing. I've read the law, and it seems pretty specific in that you can't text, email, or use social networking, and also clear that you can make calls and use gps. $500 fine is pretty steep when, after reading the law, it doesn't appear that she was breaking the law. And although I understand the intent of the law, it seems to be poorly written.
Here's a link to the statute if anyone wants to read it.
RS 32.300.5
Here's a link to the statute if anyone wants to read it.
RS 32.300.5
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Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:56 pm to EWE TIGER
Pics?
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:57 pm to EWE TIGER
Not reading that crap^.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:57 pm to EWE TIGER
Pull over. Not hard and takes little time.
I'm driving as I reply to this.
I'm driving as I reply to this.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:57 pm to EWE TIGER
I'd say that what she did falls into the category of breaking the law. She had to type in the name of the business.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:58 pm to EWE TIGER
Get your woman under control. I have to share the road with her.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:58 pm to EWE TIGER
I usually watch pr0n on my in dash screen
Posted on 5/18/17 at 4:59 pm to EWE TIGER
$500 bux seems pretty cheap way to teach ur wife 2 not murder ppl with her car because she thinks its k to drive n watch netflix at the same time 
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:00 pm to EWE TIGER
quote:
Does anyone know definitively if it is illegal to use a web browser on a phone while driving in Louisiana?
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:00 pm to VABuckeye
quote:
I'd say that what she did falls into the category of breaking the law. She had to type in the name of the business.
obv u don't know about smartphones that u can talk into 2 get info but they do have them n will even sell them to u even tho u live in a backwater swamp
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:00 pm to EWE TIGER
Seems to be poorly written, but...
Looking up a business' phone number doesn't seem to be an activity that's exempted from the law.
quote:
B. The provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall not apply to the following:
(2) An operator of a moving motor vehicle using a wireless telecommunications device to:
(a) Report illegal activity.
(b) Summon medical or other emergency help.
(c) Prevent injury to a person or property.
(d) Relay information between a transit or for-hire operator and that operator's dispatcher, in which the device is permanently affixed to the vehicle.
(e) Navigate using a global positioning system.
Looking up a business' phone number doesn't seem to be an activity that's exempted from the law.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:02 pm to Drewberry
quote:
obv u don't know about smartphones that u can talk into 2 get info but they do have them n will even sell them to u even tho u live in a backwater swamp
And obviously you're a stupid frick that can't type the english language correctly.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:02 pm to EWE TIGER
What about using Waze? or any other navigation on your cell phone... I've always wondered that.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:03 pm to EWE TIGER
lesson learned, your wife should have said she was using the gps
$500 mistake
$500 mistake
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:03 pm to EWE TIGER
quote:
Does anyone know definitively if it is illegal to use a web browser on a phone while driving in Louisiana?
Shouldn't have been using a web browser, there's a search option built into Google maps that brings the same info up and it would have been on the maps part when the officer walked up.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:03 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
quote:
What about using Waze? or any other navigation on your cell phone
Using navigation is allowed.
quote:
B. The provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall not apply to the following:
(e) Navigate using a global positioning system.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:04 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Good question. I was pulled over in New Hampshire because there it's illegal to have your phone in your hand. If you can't "Hey Siri" it or whatever without touching it you can't use it in a vehicle there.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:06 pm to VABuckeye
quote:
Good question. I was pulled over in New Hampshire because there it's illegal to have your phone in your hand. If you can't "Hey Siri" it or whatever without touching it you can't use it in a vehicle there.
be honest u got pulled over cuz ur pickup truck smelled like swamp gas
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:07 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Looking up a business' phone number doesn't seem to be an activity that's exempted from the law.
Agree, but not clear in paragraph A that using a web browser/search engine is not allowed.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 5:08 pm to Drewberry
You're the one wearing lipstick, aren't you?
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