New Utah law makes driving while texting equivalent to DWI

New Utah law makes driving while texting equivalent to DWI

The law will need to be tested against some standards of evidence. The key will be whether a policeman can confiscate your phone or subpoena your phone records to get evidence linking the time of a text transmission with the time of the accident. In order to do that, he needs some reason to determine you might have been texting. In the case of drunkenness, there are obvious visual manifestations, but what would such reasonable cause consist of with texting? That question will probably have to be vetted through several levels of the court system.