Starting Tuesday, July 1, it will be illegal for Iowa motorists to hold a cell phone, scroll through it or watch videos on it while driving.
“This new ‘hands free’ law says exactly that. Get that phone out of that hand. Find another place for it,” says Sergeant Alex Dinkla, the Iowa State Patrol’s spokesman. “From July 1 to December 31 the Iowa State Patrol and many other law enforcement folks throughout the state of Iowa will be using that as a six-month educational period to educate both drivers and the public of what this new law means.”
A 2017 Iowa law has banned texting while driving, but Dinkla says it’s been hard to enforce because drivers were allowed to handle their phones to make calls or fiddle with digital maps for navigation. That changes July 1…