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Minnesota
WIRELESS
Foundation
Tips for Safe Travel
with Your Wireless Phone
"Safety is Your Most
Important Call"
While traveling on the
road throughout the year, please remember to use your wireless
phone safely when driving. Practice good, common sense and
remember the following tips:
1. Get to know your
wireless phone and its features such as speed dial and redial.
If available, these features help you to place your call
without taking your attention off the road.
2. When available,
use a hands free device. If possible, add an additional
layer of convenience and safety to your wireless phone with one
of the many hands free accessories available today.
3. Position your
wireless phone within easy reach. Be able to access your
wireless phone without removing your eyes from the road. If you
get an incoming call at an inconvenient time, if possible, let
your voice mail answer it for you.
4. Let the person
you are speaking with know you are driving; if necessary,
suspend the call in heavy traffic or hazardous weather
conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, ice, and even heavy traffic
can be hazardous.
5. Do not take notes
or look up phone numbers while driving. Jotting down a "to
do" list or flipping through your address book takes attention
away from your primary responsibility-driving safely.
6. Dial sensibly and
assess the traffic; if possible, place calls when you are not
moving or before pulling into traffic. Try to plan calls
when your car will be stationary. If you need to make a call
while moving, dial only a few numbers, check the road and your
mirrors, then continue.
7. Do not engage in
stressful or emotional conversations that may be distracting.
Make people you are talking with aware you are driving and
suspend conversations which have the potential to divert your
attention from the road.
8. Use your wireless
phone to call for help. Dial 9-1-1 or other local emergency
number in the case of fire, traffic accident or medical
emergencies. Remember, it is a free call on your wireless phone!
9. Use your wireless
phone to help others in emergencies. If you see an auto
accident, crime in progress or other serious emergency where
lives are in danger, call 9-1-1 or other local emergency number,
as you would want others to do for you.
10. Call roadside
assistance or a special non-emergency wireless assistance number
when necessary. If you see a broken-down vehicle posing no
serious hazard, a broken traffic signal, a minor traffic
accident where no one appears injured, or a vehicle you know to
be stolen, call roadside assistance or other special
non-emergency wireless number.
"The wireless industry
reminds you to use your phone safely when driving."
For more information,
please visit the Minnesota Wireless Foundation web site at
http://www.minnesotawireless.org.
Provided by the
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association,
www.wow-com.com
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