I was never for the seat-belt law for car drivers, nor the helmet law for motorcycle riders, because of my strong feelings about individual liberty and the right to put one’s personal life at risk, as long as it doesn’t pose a danger to others.

But when it comes to passengers, that’s different because the driver that doesn’t insist that his passengers buckle their seat belts is putting their lives at risk.

I regret to say now, even though my feelings about personal liberty are as strong as ever, it’s time for provincial laws all over this country that will make it illegal to drive with a cell phone held up to the ear.

The statistics are in and it’s pretty well an accepted fact that drivers who drive with a cell phone held to their ear are closing in on the drunk drivers and other idiots as a major cause of accidents and death on our streets and highways.

In the case of those who insist on driving with their cell phones held to their ears, they are not just putting their own lives at risk but anyone else who gets close enough to be killed.

Take a look at those cell phone drivers. The very fact that they are driving with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching a cell phone to their ear makes them dangerous drivers from the get-go.

Add to that the fact that they are focused on the conversation they are having as they drive. That, by itself, makes them dangerous drivers that are not truly focused on the road and the traffic around them.

And take a look at the type of person that would want to be yakking on their cell phones as they drive. My guess is that these are self-centered people with serious personality problems, just like those you see walking around in public yakking on their cell phones as if they didn’t realize how stupid they are and how impolite that is to the people that are subjected to the personal conversation they are having with some other idiot.

I’ve seen these low down skunks yakking all the way into the store and all the way out again, and yakking on down the road as if they didn’t have a brain in their head and no concern at all about the immediate world around them or the humanity that’s in it.

These are dangerous people when they are behind the wheel. On top of their impaired and self-centered personalities, just imagine the types of conversations they may be having at any given moment while driving around in their automobiles.

Considering the fact that most people who drive around with their cell phone to their ear tend to be talking to a friend, that translates into a two-way conversation on the highway between two idiots with impaired, self-centered personalities. That’s nothing more than an accident that’s bound to happen at some point down the road.

Did you ever see one of these baboons hang up the phone? The conversations they’re having must be so engrossing they can hardly concentrate on anything else except what they are saying to their idiot friends and what their idiot friends are saying back to them.

Who knows what great passions and emotions may be rushing through their brains that may be taking up even more space and leaving less room for the traffic around them and the lives of the people they are putting at risk.

Imagine one of these impaired personalities becoming suddenly very upset or very angry during a conversation. They just might miss a red light and kill a few folks. All because of the attention they’re giving to the conversation they are having by way of a cell phone held up to their ear.

There will be many more lives lost before the provinces recognize the seriousness of the problem and enact an appropriate law that would stop the unnecessary killing and terrible injuries that are caused by those who drive with cell phones held up to their ears and our lives in their hands.

If the reader would like to help bring this matter to the attention of their MPPs, find out their e-mail addresses and send them a copy of this column.

The life you save could be yours, or even mine.