{"id":393,"date":"2016-02-01T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/selfies-the-latest-danger-for-illinois-motorists\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:19","slug":"selfies-the-latest-danger-for-illinois-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/selfies-the-latest-danger-for-illinois-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfies: The Latest Danger for Illinois Motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/legal-articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Legal Articles<\/a> | February 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><em>People often take selfies while driving, but engaging in this distracting behavior may lead to auto accidents, which may cause serious injuries or death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The popularity of self-portraits, also known as selfies, is ever-growing in Illinois, and elsewhere. People regularly take these types of photos at all times and in all types of places. In fact, CBS Interactive Inc. reported that 17 percent of the respondents in one survey admitted to taking photos, including selfies, while behind the wheel. A potentially dangerous distraction, this can result in collisions, which may cause serious injuries or death for those involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/selfies-the-latest-danger-for-illinois-motorists\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Selfies: The Latest Danger for Illinois Motorists\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Articles | February 1, 2016 People often take selfies while driving, but engaging in this distracting behavior may lead to auto accidents, which may cause serious injuries or death. The popularity of self-portraits, also known as selfies, is ever-growing in Illinois, and elsewhere. People regularly take these types of photos at all times and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Selfies and Driver Distraction: The latest danger for Illinois motorists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People often take selfies while driving, but engaging in this distracting behavior may lead to auto accidents, which may cause serious injuries or death.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/selfies-the-latest-danger-for-illinois-motorists\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Selfies and Driver Distraction: The latest danger for Illinois motorists\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"People often take selfies while driving, but engaging in this distracting behavior may lead to auto accidents, which may cause serious injuries or death.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Seidman, Margulis &amp; 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