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…
Texting While Driving in Virginia Ban
Texting While Driving Beginning July 1, Monday, texting while driving will become a so-called “primary offense” in Virginia, meaning that a police officer can pull a motorist for just doing that action, according to WJLA. http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/06/virginia-texting-and-driving-to-become-a-primary-offense-july-1-90717.html Currently, a law enforcement…
Driver Cellphone Use N.J. Stiffens
Driver Cellphone Fines Getting Stiffer in New Jersey http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_law_toughens_penalties_for_texting_talking.html State legislators signed into law a bill that bumps up the fine to a minimum of $200 and a maximum of $400 for an initial violation of the law, AP reported.…
Cops Seize Cells After Crash
Cops Seize Cells In New Jersey after Crash New Jersey is weighing a controversial bill that would allow police officers to check a driver’s cellphone at the scene of a crash, to see if that motorist was talking on the…
Fatal Crashes Due To Cellphone Use
Fatal Crashes Misrepresented When it Comes to Cellphones The number of fatal crashes in regards to motor vehicles caused by cellphone use are vastly under-reported, according to a study released this week by the National Safety Council. http://www.nsc.org/Pages/Study-Car-Crash-Deaths-Involving-Cell-Phones-Vastly-Under-Reported.aspx That was…
Text Recipient In Crash Texter Liable?
Text Recipient Crashes Here’s a case that could have national impact: A New Jersey appellate court is being asked whether a texter can be held liable if the text recipient “crashes and causes harm to other while reading and driving,”…
Six Wisconsin residents die in Kentucky truck crash
Six people, including members of a Wisconsin family, were killed when a tractor-trailer crashed into an SUV Saturday in Kentucky, according to USA Today. Police suspect that a second accident just minutes later was caused by drivers who were rubbernecking…
Truck Driver Kills Man In Distracted-Driving Accident
Here’s an absurd case of distracted driving that resulted in someone being killed. A tractor-trailer driver Saturday morning crashed into a car on Interstate 74 in Indiana when a lens from his eyeglasses fell to the floor, and he reached…
AT&T Chief Warns About Texting And Driving, But Doesn’t Want It Banned
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson has become a vocal anti-texting-while-driving advocate, delivering that message at investor conferences, shareholder meetings and club meetings, according to The New York Times. The paper, in a story headlined “AT&T Chief Speaks Out On…