Several people got a personal warning as the new hands free cellphone law went into affect Tuesday.
Sergeant Alex Dinkla with the Iowa State Patrol says there were 201 warnings issued on the law’s first day. “That is City, County and state law enforcement officials just out and about trying to educate the public yesterday,” Dinkla says. Dinkla says it’s a matter of changing your old routine.
“Retrain those those old habits of wanting to get in that car, use that phone, have that phone in your hand,” Dinkla says. “We need to get back to the basics, we’re having way too many crashes simply from driver error and driver irresponsibility when they’re behind the wheel. They have the phone in their hands.”…