The legislation needs to be changed for this purpose, the association wrote in a letter to the standing committee Infrastructure and Environment.
The number of fatalities rose slightly in 2015, after the figure gradually declined for years. The increase, according VVN more to do with the use of smart phones in the car.
“The device caused surely thousands more accidents per year,” says VVN director Felix Cohen at The Telegraph . The association says that although smartphone use is not listed as a cause of accidents, the use of phones in the car and by bicycle leads to accidents.
“The Foundation for Road Safety Research speaks of ten to a hundred deaths per year due to smartphone usage, “said a spokesman for VVN. “It’s hard to express the exact number in hard numbers – that information is simply never kept that way.”
Politics urge
The letter will urge VVN politics take action, for example by introducing a law that a smartphone is largely unusable while driving. “It should be taken into account using phones as navigation and gears co-drivers, or for example rail passengers,” said VVN.
A voluntary blocking features and notifications while driving, such as on some smartphones already is possible, it claimed VVN not go far enough. “We are finding ourselves like the boundaries and there are always new distractions, such as people who are searching for Pokemon nearly a ditch running in.”
By setting an automatic blockade required, the measure according VVN less depending on police control. The association feels that now is controlled too little on phone use behind the wheel, so more people would be inclined to take their phone with it
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