April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation, EndDD.org, and 60 For Safety have coordinated efforts to develop a program for high school students that will be used by 850 speakers, presenting to 25,000 students across North America in April and May. One part of the presentation is to describe the
AAA recently conducted its first in-car camera video study to measure the driving habits of young drivers. The study, Driving Among Newly Licensed Teen Drivers, reveals that teenager girls are more distracted while driving than their male counterparts.
Since 2007 cell phone ownership has grown 29 % with the average owner glacing at thier cellphone 150 times a day. 25% reporting some type of accident while messaging or talking on the phone.
Last year, T-Mobile announced an optional new service that would automatically disable alerts and send all calls to voicemail if a cell phone is in a moving car. At that time, we expected other carriers would follow with similar innovations. Surprise! Many other technology companies have moved into this area over the last 12 months
Pennsylvania’s text ban has been in effect for nearly a week now, and plenty has been said and written to keep the conversation going. Schools, businesses, families…
Secretary of Transportation Ray La Hood announced the first federally proposed guidelines to encourage auto manufacturers to design vehicles to reduce distractions from in-vehicle electronic devices.
In this video, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Ad Council have teamed up with the hit Fox television show, Glee to create a message that highlight the dangers of texting while driving. You may have seen the actual episode of the show where Quinn, (played by actress Dianna Agron), was involved in the
We are all guilty of this deadly habit, yet many of us don’t even know when we are doing it. Our dependence on cell phones makes us do it even more. The offense is driving distracted. It happens when we are talking, texting, dialing, reaching, eating, reading or even grooming while we are driving and
At the 2012 American Association for Justice (AAJ) Winter Convention, more than 60 trial lawyers met to learn about efforts to end distracted driving.
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