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Drivers who do not take the time to completely defrost their windows drive with a dramatically reduced field of vision. As Sargent Scott Kristiansen of the Buffalo Grove Police Department in suburban Chicago pointed out in a USA Today article: "Reasonable people who would never think of leaving their driveway with worn tires or bad brakes will routinely drive their children to school after scraping just a small peephole with which to see out of the vehicle." In Illinois a driver can be cited for anything an officer deems to "materially obstruct" a driver's vision.

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As of January 1, 2010, Illinois makes texting while driving illegal. Specifically, the new law prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle while using an electronic communications device to compose, send, or read an electronic message

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A study published by the journal of Human Factors concluded that texting drivers are six times more likely to crash than drivers who are not texting. Using simulator vehicles, researchers concluded that texting is even significantly more dangerous than using a cell phone. People on cell phones are four times more likely to crash than drivers who are not on a cell phone studies have shown. In Chicago and in the whole state of Illinois, as of January 1, 2010 it will be illegal to text and drive.

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