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Back in November, I made note of an upgrade to NJ's cell-phoning-while-driving law.  Driving and using a handheld cell phone would become a primary offense on March 1 2008, and it would be beefed with an anti-text-messaging ban as well. The results are in. In February 2008, the last month of the previous rules, NJ courts handled 1300 cell-phone tickets.  In March 2008, add another zero - thirteen thousand.  In fact, that's almost as many as the preceding 12 months (16,000 from March 2007 to February 2008)...

Sylvia, one of my partners in crime here at Edmunds, posted in her blog Driving Miss Crazy about texting while driving.  New Jersey has addressed this issue this past week... Governor Corzine signed into law an upgraded measure regarding the use of cell phones.  Previously, hand-held cell phones were not allowed while driving, but it was a secondary offense, meaning a police officer had to pull you over for another moving violation before adding a summons for using a hand-held cell phone while driving. The new law in NJ now makes hand-held cell phone use a primary offense, with a fine of $250 for talking or $100 for texting.  The revised law takes effect March 1 2008.  The only other states with a primary-offense cell phone law are California, Connecticut, and New York, along with Washington DC.  Washington state was the first state to ban texting...