SALT LAKE CITY — People who text and drive, beware; police in Salt Lake and Utah Counties are looking for you. It’s part of an undercover crackdown happening now on distracted drivers. KSL went out with officers doing the blitz.
“Alright, right there, she’s definitely manipulating the phone texting,” said a state trooper with the Utah Highway Patrol.
Between now and April 20, you may see a lot of drivers getting pulled over and possibly ticketed for distracted driving. Scores of officers from 42 police agencies in Salt Lake and Utah Counties, including the Utah Highway Patrol, are out looking for drivers doing anything from texting, eating or brushing their teeth behind the wheel as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month…