Texting In New Jersey, if you are texting a person who you know is driving, you can be held liable if that motorist then crashes and causes injury. In what was apparently the first ruling of its kind, an appellate…
Youth Texting Gets 5 Yrs For FatalCrash
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…
Alaska Woman Falls Down Cliff While Texting
The dangers of texting just don’t sink into people’s noggins, despite all the warnings. Late last month an Anchorage newspaper published a story about a woman who fell about 60 feet down the side of a cliff. She was a…
Disney Threatens To Fire Workers Who Text While Driving
The Walt Disney Co. is known for having strick rules for its employees, and now it is taking an extra hard line on texting. The website Deadline Hollywood reported last week that Disney has told its workers it may fire…