PITTSBURGH \u2014 If you\u2019re caught using or touching your phone while driving in Pennsylvania, you\u2019ll soon face a $50 fine. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all just running out, stopping cars whenever we see them,\u201d Peters Township Police Chief Joseph Glover told Channel 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the next few days, Chief Glover and several other departments across the South Hills are giving drivers their final warnings before the Paul Miller Law goes into effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starting this Saturday, drivers who have their cell phones in their hand will be fined.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chief Glover sees it every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou pull up to traffic on Route 19. You\u2019re stopped at a red light. You look over, and they\u2019re sitting there playing on your cell phone. That\u2019s illegal now,\u201d Chief Glover said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police departments across the South Hills say it\u2019s especially a problem on Route 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of us, all of the police departments have a lot of crashes on 19. That\u2019s where a vast majority of our traffic is\u2026 and it\u2019s also where people are going to see us out stopping cars,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paul Miller was killed in 2010 when the driver of a tractor-trailer reached for his phone while driving and crashed into Miller.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a number of fatal crashes out there where people have dropped their cell phone down into the footwell and they reach down for there, take their eye off the road, and swing into a another lane, and somebody gets hit head-on and killed,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only exception to the law is if a driver needs to dial 911 while behind the wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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