Would love to know where these people get their facts from?
I have to work with accident data for my job and I can't see anywhere it records mobile phones as a cause or contributory factor???
Like speeding it's easy to single out and gain lots of support from useless cretins that are more worried about what everybody else is doing than actually looking after their own children and keeping them out of the roads in the first place.
I don't condone the use of a handheld phone whilst driving, although I've done it and sure if most people are honest they have too. It certainly does effect your driving, but to claim handsfree is as dangerous as drink driving is total horse crap. If that were true they should ban talking to your passengers as it's no different.