On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:46:22 -0700, Olaf Gustafson > wrote:
>On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:39:54 GMT, "BE" > wrote:

>>Your cellphone is killing 2,600 per year, well ok not YOUR cellphone, but
>>folks using cellphones. from http://tinyurl.com/6yeam
>>

>I don't find an article that starts out with "Finally, empirical proof
>you can blame chatty 20-somethings for stop-and-go traffic on the way
>to work" very credible.


>>Cell phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the
>>United States every year, according to the journal's publisher, the Human
>>Factors and Ergonomics Society.

>Notice they didn't tell you how they came up with this number. It's
>an estimate based on a whole bunch of assumptions.

Are they still using the correlation between having an accident and
using a cell phone where they haven't ruled out those people who only
used their phone to dial 911 after the accident?