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05
Oct

Run/Walk With Us or Simply Show your Support to End Distracted Driving in the Rock-n-Roll Philadelphia or Vegas Half Marathon

by Dianne Anderson | Distracted Driving Updates

Are you going to be in or around Philadelphia on October 31st? Do you run (and/or walk) and would you like to do so with the EndDD.org team to End Distracted Driving? Live rock-n-roll music, refreshments and cheering crowds will inspire you along the Rock-n-Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon (#RnRPhilly) course through historic Philadelphia and the beautiful Kelly and Martin Luther King Drives beside the Schuylkill River [….]

04
Oct

Lawsuits Against Car Manufacturers for Installing Dangerous Voice-Activated Features

by End Distracted Driving | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles

Distracted driving crashes are receiving more and more attention. Much of the focus has been on texting, and more recently on using all the other apps and features of our phones, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. But what has not received much attention is the dangerous distractions being built into our cars [….]

14
Sep

“I was fighting back tears when I crossed the finish line. I was missing Casey” – The Virginia Beach Rock n Roll Half Marathon

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles

On September 6th I completed my first ever half marathon in Virginia Beach. This is one of four races that I will run this year for EndDD.org, working with Travelers Insurance Company to raise awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. Travelers will be donating $100 for every mile run by three to four runners

03
Sep

Michele (Shelby) Bryceland Joins the EndDD Team Running this Weekend in the Va Beach Rock-n-Roll Marathon

by Dianne Anderson | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles, EndDD in the News

While playing soccer in high school Shelby knew that she would never be a star player since she lacked the necessary skills but, recognized that she was great at running up and down the field. Thus began her entry into cross country and track. Since that time, Shelby has gone on to break records at Virginia Wesleyan College and since graduating in 2013 […]

25
Aug

Writer talks of her father, the crash and distracted driving

by End Distracted Driving | EndDD Featured Articles

My father met me for lunch at Bennigan’s a few weeks before I made the biggest move of my life—to New York City—in the summer of 2003. It was that lunch with him, and one other, in the same restaurant, five days before he died, that I had to hold onto as I made my way in the big city. Because three months after it, he was gone [….]

20
Aug

U.S. on pace for deadliest driving year since 2007, says National Safety Council

by Dianne Anderson | Distracted Driving Updates

The National Safety Council estimates traffic deaths are 14 percent higher through the first six months of 2015 than they were during the same period in 2014, and serious injuries are 30 percent higher. From January to June, nearly 19,000 people died in traffic crashes across the U.S., and more than 2.2 million were seriously injured, putting the country on pace for its deadliest driving year since 2007 [….]

11
Aug

EndDD.org’s First Presentations in New Mexico

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles, EndDD in the News

Several days after the 6th anniversary of Casey’s death I was pleased to carry our EndDD program into New Mexico. I spoke at CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Sante Fe and also presented at the annual Safer New Mexico Law Enforcement Coordinators Symposium in Albuquerque. I had been thinking about Casey and the day we learned that she

16
Jul

Travelers Partners With Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series and Asks “What Drives Runners?”

by End Distracted Driving | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD in the News

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series today announced Travelers, an official sponsor, is shining a spotlight on what motivates runners with its “My Drive Comes From” campaign. Committed to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, Travelers will use the campaign as a platform to highlight “the drive” of runner Joel Feldman. [….]

03
Jul

Distracted drivers just lucky they haven’t killed someone, advocate says

by End Distracted Driving | EndDD in the News

Deseret National News – When Joel Feldman first learned his daughter had been hit and killed by a distracted driver, he went through feelings of shock, anger and hatred toward the driver who had hit her. The more he thought about it, however, the more he realized how he had done the same things the driver had done. “I would text occasionally, I would email — which is probably worse — I would eat in the car, I’d steer with my knees, I’d program my GPS when I was driving, and I came to a realization I had just been very, very lucky I’d never killed anyone,” Feldman said [….]

Distracted Driving Archives | Page 16 of 45 | EndDD

Run/Walk With Us or Simply Show your Support to End Distracted Driving in the Rock-n-Roll Philadelphia or Vegas Half Marathon

Lawsuits Against Car Manufacturers for Installing Dangerous Voice-Activated Features

“I was fighting back tears when I crossed the finish line. I was missing Casey” – The Virginia Beach Rock n Roll Half Marathon

Michele (Shelby) Bryceland Joins the EndDD Team Running this Weekend in the Va Beach Rock-n-Roll Marathon

Writer talks of her father, the crash and distracted driving

U.S. on pace for deadliest driving year since 2007, says National Safety Council

EndDD.org’s First Presentations in New Mexico

Travelers Partners With Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series and Asks “What Drives Runners?”

Distracted drivers just lucky they haven’t killed someone, advocate says

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