ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Distracted driving is in the spotlight in the wake of Anchorage Chief of Police Mark Mew's recent iPhone-induced fender bender.
Anchorage's city manager reprimanded Mew for the incident, during which Mew admitted checking his iPhone while stopped at a red light.
Mew says he was silencing a calendar alarm when he bumped the car in front of him earlier this month.
"What I saw change out of the corner of my eye was not the green light for me, it was the turn light coming on for a different lane of traffic," Mew said.
Mew was not ticketed, but says he should have known better.
"I shouldn't have been fiddling with it," said Mew.
In Alaska, there is a law that makes it illegal to use cell phones in certain situations, like texting and checking emails while driving.
