mtwallet said:
mtwallet,
A lot of legislation is common sense. It is common sense that you should not talk on a hand held cellphone when you are driving a car, but in Connecticut we had to enact a law to stop it because the use of cellphones was being increasingly cited in police reports on motor vehicle accidents.
Your post raises an interesting question, though, about the law being used as a device to collect tax revenue for socialist-type government spending needs, as opposed to being enacted to protect the health and safety of highway travellers in Quebec. It makes me wonder whether Connecticut would have the same law, if the weather here were the same here as it is in Quebec. My best guess is that we would have the same law on the books if our weather was the same as yours. The only dilemma would be for trucks. I am not sure whether this law only applies to passenger vehicles or all commercial vehicles? My guess is in Connecticut, notwithstanding some of the severe problems we have with unregulated truck traffic (e.g. tractor trailers carrying cargo that is all too often not properly secured and is spilling onto I-95), it would apply only to passenger vehicles.
