Appendix B: Guide to Safe and Responsible Wireless Phone Use165case of fire, traffic accident, road hazard or medicalemergency. Remember, it is a free call on your wirelessphone!9. Use your wireless phone to help others in emergencies.Your wireless phone provides you a perfect opportunity tobe a “Good Samaritan” in your community. If you see anauto accident, crime in progress or other seriousemergency where lives are in danger, call 9-1-1 or otherlocal emergency number, as you would want others to dofor you.10.Call roadside assistance or a special wireless non-emergency assistance number when necessary. Certainsituations you encounter while driving may requireattention, but are not urgent enough to merit a call foremergency services. But you still can use your wirelessphone to lend a hand. If you see a broken-down vehicleposing no serious hazard, a broken traffic signal, a minortraffic accident where no one appears injured or a vehicleyou know to be stolen, call roadside assistance or otherspecial non-emergency wireless number.Careless, distracted individuals and people drivingirresponsibly represent a hazard to everyone on the road.Since 1984, the Cellular Telecommunications IndustryAssociation and the wireless industry have conductededucational outreach to inform wireless phone users oftheir responsibilities as safe drivers and good citizens. Aswe approach a new century, more and more of us will takeadvantage of the benefits of wireless telephones. And, aswe take to the roads, we all have a responsibility to drivesafely.“The wireless industry reminds you to use your phonesafely when driving.”
