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# Video Report: Iowa's Texting-While-Driving Ban Hard To Enforce
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/video-report-iowas-texting-while-driving-ban-hard-to-enforce/
- Published: 2014-12-15T19:22:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:39:54.000Z
- Description: Iowa’s law banning texting while driving is hard to enforce because of how it is written. This video report explains that Iowa convicted an average of only 2.5 drivers per county for texting in 2013, even as the number of texting-related crashes has started to rise in Iowa.
- Author: Sarah Hadley
- Tags: Health, iowawatch, Iowa Law, texting driving deaths, texting while driving, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

Iowa’s law banning texting while driving is hard to enforce because of how it is written. As a result, officers seldom enforce it because of legal restrictions. Meanwhile, road crashes have not dropped in numbers, an IowaWatch investigation report earlier this year showed.

This video report explains that Iowa convicted an average of only 2.5 drivers per county for texting in 2013, even as the number of texting-related crashes has started to rise in Iowa.

You can[ read more here](https://investigatemidwest.org/iowas-texting-while-driving-ban-not-reducing-crashes-hard-to-enforce/?ref=investigatemidwest.org).

###### REPORTED BY IOWAWATCH PREVIOUSLY:

###### [Iowa’s Texting-While-Driving Ban Not Reducing Crashes, Hard To Enforce](https://investigatemidwest.org/iowas-texting-while-driving-ban-not-reducing-crashes-hard-to-enforce/?ref=investigatemidwest.org)

###### [Texting and Driving Statistics, In Charts](https://investigatemidwest.org/texting-and-driving-statistics-in-charts/?ref=investigatemidwest.org)

###### READ MORE:

###### [Texting bans don’t reduce crashes; effects are slight crash increases](http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/texting-bans-dont-reduce-crashes-effects-are-slight-crash-increases?ref=investigatemidwest.org), Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute

###### [Interactive map: See the texting laws in each U.S. state](http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/state-laws.html?ref=investigatemidwest.org)