Appendix B: Guide to Safe and Responsible Wireless Phone Use189inconvenient time, if possible, let your voice mailanswer it for you.4. Suspend conversations during hazardous drivingconditions or situations. Let the person you arespeaking with know you are driving; if necessary,suspend the call in heavy traffic or hazardous weatherconditions. Rain, sleet, snow and ice can behazardous, but so is heavy traffic. As a driver, your firstresponsibility is to pay attention to the road.5. Do not take notes or look up phone numbers whiledriving. If you are reading an address book or businesscard, or writing a “to do” list while driving a car, you arenot watching where you are going. It’s common sense.Don’t get caught in a dangerous situation because youare reading or writing and not paying attention to theroad or nearby vehicles.6. Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, placecalls when you are not moving or before pulling intotraffic. Try to plan your calls before you begin your tripor attempt to coincide your calls with times you may bestopped at a stop sign, red light or otherwise stationary.But if you need to dial while driving, follow this simpletip-dial only a few numbers, check the road and yourmirrors, then continue.7. Do not engage in stressful or emotional conversationsthat may be distracting. Stressful or emotionalconversations and driving do not mix-they aredistracting and even dangerous when you are behindthe wheel of a car. Make people you are talking withaware you are driving and if necessary, suspend
