States unlikely to heed NTSB call for cellphone ban

Friday, December 16, 2011 | 3:43 p.m. CST; updated 4:46 p.m. CST, Friday, December 16, 2011

ST. LOUIS — Lawmakers in Missouri had the chance, after two buses packed with high school band members slammed into a freeway wreck caused by a teenager who was sending a flurry of text messages, to impose tougher limits on driver cellphone use. It got filibustered.

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