They should do this every month and double the fines.

This enforcement action is great and I'm convinced the new law reduces accidents. I have lost count of the number of times I almost got hit by drivers talking on their phones and ignoring everything else.

I'm thinking of mounting a dashboard cam, and posting the videos of swerving drivers I see on a "Unsafe Driver Hall of Shame" web site. That would be fun, methinks. Not so much for the scofflaws, but who cares about them, anyway? Heh.

@martin: "I have lost count of the number of times I almost got hit by drivers talking on their phones and ignoring everything else."

Research shows that hands-free doesn't reduce accidents. The problem is the conversation*, not the phone. However, hands-free probably just makes you not notice that they're talking on the phone so you just think they're bad drivers.

* The problem is mostly with phone conversations and not with conversations with people inside the car because they can actually see that you're trying to merge or whatever and they can shut up for a few seconds.

Yes, it's the phone conversation that's been shown to be the real problem, but at least the law making a hand-held phone illegal was a good first step. Those of us who take seriously the research about the dangers of talking on the phone while driving (not to mention who have observed the recklessness of drivers in their own little phone-conversation world) should lobby our representatives to outlaw all cell phone conversations while driving.

It isn't costly enough, obviously. And why is it only an enforcement "period"? Why aren't the putting effort into enforcing it ALWAYS? People have no reason to take the law seriously.