Should Texting While Driving Be Banned?

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that texting, emailing or chatting while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed anywhere in the United States.

The board is urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies following recent deadly crashes, including one in Missouri after a teenager sent or received 11 text messages within 11 minutes.

Currently, 35 states and the District of Columbia ban texting while driving, while nine states and Washington, D.C., bar hand-held cellphone use. Thirty states ban all cellphone use for beginning drivers. In Virginia, cell phones are allowed, but texting while driving is banned.

But enforcement is generally not a high priority, and no states ban the use of hands-free devices for all drivers.

Read the full story from the NTSB on The Huffington Post.