STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, APRIL 13, 2017....A fatal distraction behind the wheel of a fast-moving car can occur in the time it took you to read this sentence."Five seconds is the average time a driver's eyes are taken off the road while reading or sending a text message," Sen. Kathleen O'Connor Ives told her colleagues on the Transportation Committee on Wednesday. "At 55 miles per hour, those five seconds are enough to cover the length of a football field."The Newburyport [...]
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