Healthy Communities Wyandotte and the Public Health Department are sponsoring a car seat and bicycle safety event for kids and their parents at Kansas City, Kansas’s Indian Springs Shopping Center this weekend. Free bike helmets and car seats will be distributed at the event, which is designed to encourage children to travel safely on foot,… read more

A sixth grader has come up with the winning entry for the “It Can Wait” hackathon from AT & T held in early September. The Rancho Palos Verdes student, with the assistance of a designer who works at WLDG, created an app called Rode Dog that lets users create networks of acquaintances who can utilize… read more

The Governor of California recently signed a bill regarding the performance and safety standards of autonomous vehicles along state roads. The bill will make it legal for citizens to operate a self-driving automobile if the person has a driver’s license. However, the driver is required to sit where he or she normally would on a… read more

The “Innovators Award” has been given to three Rutgers engineers that were involved in making an app that is meant to curb distracted driving and promote safety. The app, when in use by a driver, forwards incoming incoming text and voice messages so that the driver can access them when the vehicle is turned off…. read more

One of the most unnerving things parents will ever have to go through is leaving their child alone in the house for the first time.  The age at which this should happen varies depending on the maturity of the child, but for most families, it’s going to come up sooner or later.  Parents are likely… read more

A Detroit, Michigan-based AT & T employee developed the free mobile application that she and others hope will help save lives by combatting the growing epidemic of texting and driving. The free DriveMode app can be used to automatically respond to incoming calls and text messages with a busy message preprogrammed by the user.  The… read more

SunRidge Farms (Falcon Trading Company) has recalled their Energy Nuggets, Peanut Butter Power Chews and Treasure Trove Mix.  The recall is due to the SunLand-supplied peanut butter used in the items.  SunLand has issued a recall of their own, saying that some of their products may suffer from a Salmonella contamination.  Salmonella is an organism… read more

A whopping 179 drivers were found by employees of Allstate in Canada to be driving while distracted. On Thursday, the insurance company conducted several concurrent surveys throughout the country during the morning rush hour, all in a bid to bring awareness to the fact that driving while distracted is extremely dangerous. Sherwood Park had some… read more

Chattanooga Bakery has issued a recall on Peanut Butter Crunch due to potential health risks associated with the items. The source of the recall is the threat of a Salmonella Bredeney contamination, which has been confirmed in other peanut butter items available across 18 states.  At this time, however, none of the illnesses have been… read more

Many people, it seems, text while driving, even though they know that it is quite dangerous. A new study out of the University of Michigan shows that people naturally feel compelled to check and create text messages despite understanding the dangers of doing so while driving. People may not even realize how automatic the action… read more

Texting while driving doesn’t appear to be limited to operators of cars. In Chicago, a train driver was allegedly observed texting while operating a train, and the witness even caught the act on video. The Chicago Transit Authority reports that it has a zero tolerance policy for behaviors like this, citing the importance of train… read more

As part of a national campaign aimed at educating everyone about the dangers of texting while driving, a Florida high school in Tampa recently had 1,800 students sign a pledge never to engage in the dangerous practice. The Wharton High School PTSA led a four-month project to upgrade its driver education program by incorporating information… read more