In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Same here with the fallacy that cellphone use raises the accident rate.
The facts show no effect whatsoever on the accident rate. None.

It may be true that no one has been able to extract from the overall
noisy data evidence of cell phones influencing the accident rate. But
it also possible determine whether or not a person was using a cell
phone at the time of an accident.

not reliably, it isn't.

absent dashcam video of both the road *and* the driver, there is no way
to know exactly what happened and when.

matching up cellphone call logs with the *assumed* time of the crash
(which is what they do now) means nothing.

From this information it has been
possible to determine that you are more likely to have an accident
when using a cell phone than not.

what you're missing is that there are *many* other activities that can
cause a distraction, including drinking coffee, eating food, fussing
with the radio, dealing with kids and much, much more.

distracted drivers don't need cellphones to be distracted.

Interestingly it does not appear
that the use of hands-free makes much difference.

of course it doesn't.