Last week Joel Feldman spoke with teens in driver’s education classes in Colorado’s St. Vrain Valley School District  about distracted driving. In order to demonstrate just  how distracting cell phone conversations can be the teens participated in a cognitive distraction exercise.    “The exercise is designed to highlight that while we think we can concentrate on more than one activity at .

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) , in collaboration with the Michigan State Police, recently released a new PSA video in its fight to reduce distracted driving injuries and deaths. The video is of a sportscaster doing the play by play of a distracted driver who is spending some time behind bars. The announcer says at one point in the .

University of Colorado students are part of a project that will develop a distracted driving program aimed at college students. The CU students are working in conjunction with the Bacchus network, a national leader in college safety programs, with funding provided by the Colorado DOT.  Efforts will culminate in a state-wide Colorado Distracted Driving Summit to be held in May .