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Bills limiting cellphone use while driving by mandating hands-free technology have been introduced in the Iowa Legislature since 2019, but all attempts at passage have been unsuccessful. More than 30 other states have passed such laws. Why won't Iowa?
Ellen Bengtson was riding her bicycle near Charles City on a sunny Sunday evening in 2020 when she was killed by a driver who was opening an app on his
Sen. Brad Zaun has pushed to ban the traffic cameras ever since he received a citation in 2011 after a camera captured his son speeding while driving the senator’s vehicle in Cedar Rapids.
Grieving families urged a state senator to propose a stand-alone hands-free driving bill, without the ban on traffic cameras.
DES MOINES — Iowa law enforcement officials and grieving families of Iowans killed by distracted drivers packed a Senate committee room Tuesday over a proposal that would pair a ban