According to statistics provided by Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett and city spokesperson Kim Hilsenbeck, our of the 317 traffic accidents Kyle police investigated in 2014 and the 325 so far this year, two of them each year were the result of driver distraction caused by the driver using some sort of hand held mobile electronic device. That’s a minuscule 0.6 percent of all traffic accidents.
Of course, a few drivers may have fibbed (Can you believe it?) to investigating officers when asked what happened. But still.
On the other hand, 5.9 percent of all criminal incidents (2,135 out of 36,200) investigated by Kyle police involved use of handguns last year and that number rose to 6.2 percent this year.
Welcome to Kyle, the city that believes "Guns don’t kill people, cell phones do."
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