The average person almost never leaves home without a set of keys, wallet and – perhaps most importantly – a phone.
People live with their phone in hand, and in countless cases it remains there – even when someone gets behind the wheel.
With car insurance rates rising and more people experiencing the devastating impacts of distracted driving, advocates say the time is now for Florida to go “hands free.”
Demetrius Branca, a longtime Tallahassee resident, says he will be caravanning to every county in the state to tell local leaders just that: “What I’m trying to do is save them from a fate they can’t even imagine.”
Florida’s 2025 legislative session is just around the corner. Branca wants to rally support to urge legislators to pass a hands-free law that would ban any handheld use of a phone while driving, and he won’t stop until his message and story are heard.