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Multiplied when operators are distracted. reporting on an increasingly common culprit. >> reporter: the spanish train operator on the same curve over 60 times without incident. at the time of the crash last month, so distracked, he ignored three warnings to slow down. in the u.s., the fra manned uba of phones. >> if they're caught violating rules they're dismissed immediately. >> reporter: they banned commercial truck and bus drivers from texting in 2010, a year later banned all handheld phone calls. >> if you're looking down at your texting device for four to five seconds, you drive the lengt...

Seniors admitted that they had texted or e-mailed while driving. the head of the transportation department calls distractive driving an epidemic. >> and americans have gotten into very dangerous behavior with their cell phones and their texting devices. to think they can use them behind the wheel of a car and drive safely. and you can't do it. put that phone in the glove compartment. put that texting device in the glove compartment. buckle up. drive safely. >> heed that vice. hood called on states without texting and driving laws to join the rest of the nation and asked automakers to adopt tec...

The wheel, and both eyes on the road. the real epidemic in america is that everybody has a cell phone and everybody has a texting device and people think they can use them while they are driving and that is very dangerous behavior. personal responsibility, put it in the glove compartment. the epidemic is not about -- and a lot of people don't have bluetooth, and lot of people don't have gps, and they can't afford it, but they have a cell phone and texting device which they believe they can use any time any place anywhere including in the car, which is very dangerous behavior. >> you know the o...