Following its meeting Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board called for the first national ban on the use of cellphones, as well as texting, by motorists. The safety recommendation against driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) specifically calls for the 50…
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…
Driver Who Hit And Killed Pedestrian While Texting Barred From Having Cellphone In Car
It seems like a light sentence to us. A California woman, who hit and killed an elderly man because she was distracted by texting while she was driving, won’t be able to have a cellphone in her car as part of a…
Family Of Deliveryman Struck By Texting Teen Plan To File Suit
The survivors of a Brooklyn deliveryman, who was mowed down by a teenager who was distracted by texting, plan to sue and refuse to take him off life support, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/09/22/2010-09-22_kin_of_deliveryman_left_braindead_by_texting_driver_wont_pull_plug_vow_suit_stil.html Tian Shen Lin,…
Texting Teen Mows Down Deliveryman, Leaving Him Brain Dead
What does it take for people to get the message that they shouldn’t be texting while driving? Apparently, hitting someone and leavng them brain dead. On Sunday night a 19-year-old girl in Brooklyn was texting while driving when she struck a Chinese…
Fido Can Be As Bad A Distraction As Texting While You’re Driving
You can add pets to the list of driver distractions that can lead to accidents, according to the AAA. http://www.aaanewsroom.net/Main/Default.asp?CategoryID=7&ArticleID=789 A recent survey by AAA and Kurgo found that one in five respondents admitted to driving with a dog in their lap. Since…
New Jersey Drivers Are Doing More Texting, But Using Hand-Held Cellphones Less
Here’s frightening news: Despite celebrities like Oprah Winfrey warning people that vehicles are a “No Phone Zone,” last year New Jersey drivers did more texting while behind the wheel than ever. Some 25 percent of Jersey drivers said they have texted while driving in the…
Six More States Ban Texting While Driving Effective July 1
Today, July 1, bans on texting-while-driving went into effect in six states, adding to the 18 others that already prohibit motorists from using their cellphones to send messages. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/June10/062810/063010-03.htm Michigan, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming will start enforcing their new laws…
Oprah Winfrey Leads Passionate Charge Against Deadly Driver Distractions, Texting And Cellphone Use
Talk show host and cultural trendsetter Oprah Winfrey is continuing her passionate quest to make texting or using a cellphone while driving considered as dangerous, and heinous, an act as drunken driving. And who better to get national attention on this…
Texting Driver Crashes Into Tractor Trailer
A Pennsylvania teenager was texting when she hit a tractor trailer on Route 158 in Wilmington Township, according to police. http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_055225711.html The woman, 18-yar-old Clarice Edinger, was driving northbound, and while she was texting on her cellphone her car drifted…