Youth Texting If this isn’t a cautionary tale about youth texting, drinking and driving, then I don’t know what is. And it was enough to infuriate a judge. On Friday an 18-year-old youth from Montgomery Township, N.J., Samuel Oltmans, was…
N.J. Distracted Driver On Cellphone Plunges Into River
This is why drivers shouldn’t be chatting on their cellphones when they are behind the wheel. A Bridgewater, N.J., man Saturday was talking on his cellphone when he lost control of his car and drove it into the Raritan River,…
Texas Woman Gets $24 Million Verdict In Cellphone Accident
A Texas jury has awarded $24 million to a woman hit by a Coca-Cola truck driver who was talking on her cellphone, the Associated Press reported Monday. http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2012/05/07/246574.htm Vanice Chatman-Wilson, 37, was given $10 million in punitive damages and $14…
DOT Ban On Commercial Truckers Using Cellphones Is In Effect
Here’s a reminder: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s ban on interstate truck drivers using hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel became effective Jan. 1. The rule is the federal government’s latest volley in the battle against distracted driving, a huge…
Highways Deaths Hit All-Time Low, Federal Officials Focus On Better Distracted-Driving Data
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood delivered some good news last Thursday, and part of it was that federal officials are improving their methods to collect data related to distracted driving. The first good news was that updated 2010 fatality and injury…
New Jersey Couple, Who Lost Legs In Accident, Sue Driver That Hit Them While On His Cellphone
Here’s what I’m sure will be just the beginning of a rash of lawsuits filed in cases where a driver using a cellphone or texting had an accident. Here is such a suit filed just last week: A New Jersey man and…