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Jul 19, 2008 6:23 pm US/Pacific

Local Rep Isn't Ready To Ban Texting-While-Driving

A San Gabriel Valley legislator who heads a key committee says he wants to see how the new California cellphone driver law is working before approving any ban on texting while driving.

Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-El Monte, told the Inland Bulletin that only 2,500 tickets have been written by the California Highway Patrol for people yakking on handheld sets this month. By comparison, CHP officers wrote 45,000 speeding tickets in the same time span.

Despite Eng's wait-and-see attitude, a bill written by a Northern California assemblyman to ban texting at the wheel will be heard by the Assembly Transportation Committee later this summer. Eng chairs that committee.

"I'd like to wait and see whether (the cell-phone law) worked first before moving on to other legislation," Eng told the Bulletin.

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