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with KAKE News:  Texting while driving continues to be a hot
topic across the nation as more and more states enact laws to
ban it. But has it made an impact in Wichita yet?  According to
the US Department of Transportation, more than 5,000 people died
in 2009 in distracted driving crashes. 448,000 people were hurt.
While we can't narrow down how many of those distractions were
from cell phones, the department estimates that one in every
five fatal crashes is caused by a driver distracted by a cell
phone.  We've all seen it... an many of us have done it. It's
not just texting, either. The general use of cell phones while
driving is a problem across the United States that has led to
serious accidents and untold fatalities.  "One of the analogies
that's been used for texting while driving," explained Wichita
Police Lt. Joe Schroeder, "would be the same as getting on the
roadway and drivi