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WASHINGTON — A group of US lawmakers on Wednesday moved to ban driving-while-texting, pointing to studies showing that sending messages from behind the wheel sharply increases the risk of a killer crash.

Studies conducted by the VTTI found that text messaging resulted in the longest duration of "eyes off road time" -- 4.6 seconds over a six-second interval.

"This equates to a driver traveling the length of a football field (100 yards/meters) at 55 miles per hour (88.5 kilometers per hour) without looking at the roadway," it said.

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