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Deal signs bill limiting cell phone use in vehicles
Governor signs bill in Statesboro
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Governor Nathan Deal signs the "Hands-Free Georgia Act" into law with family members of the five Georgia Southern nursing students who who were killed in the 2015 crash with a tractor trailer on I-16 at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport Wednesday. - photo by Scott Bryant/Statesboro Herald
STATESBORO — For the families of five Georgia Southern University students killed in a 2015 crash on Interstate 16, Gov. Nathan Deal hopes his signing into law of the Hands-Free Georgia Act will offer some solace that the new law may help prevent the grief they suffered from befalling other families.
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