On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:17:06 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:

cell phone ownership IS NOT EQUAL TO cell phone usage while driving

You'll notice that I have been very careful to distinguish
between the two words:
1. Ownership, and,
2. Usage.

The *assumption* is that greater ownership means greater usage, but,
someone already posted a UK statistic which refutes that fact.

That statistic, as I recall, was something like only 1.5% of the
population were dumb****s that drove while using the cellphone.

So, it may just be that the dumb****s who cause accidents are dumb****s
who cause accidents no matter what. If it isn't a cellphone, it would
be something else.

At least that explanation would solve the paradox.