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Holding handsets banned for drivers

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

More than 112 million Americans use wireless phones. An estimated 85 percent of them use phones while driving. Still, there aren't many studies that detail the link between accidents and talking while driving.

However, a study published four years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine did say using a cellphone while driving made an accident four times more likely.

"Why would anyone want to take a chance?" Sinclair asked. "The best thing is just not to talk while on the road."

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