2013

More than two weeks have passed since the California Highway Patrol and other police entities initiated a crackdown on distracted driving, and the results have been pouring in as the operation is conducted.  The Redwood City chapter of the CHP has detailed the success of their own efforts up until April 16, and they’ve even… read more

We’ve been spending the past couple weeks drawing your attention to the various enforcement operations in place all throughout California as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  But these types of endeavors don’t just affect our state.  As you’ll soon see, even those persons who decide to take a weekend trip to Las Vegas… read more

At the beginning of this week, police in the area of Sparks, Nevada, set out to issue tickets to those persons judged to be in violation of the state’s laws against distracted driving.  Over the course of the day, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department, the Sparks Police Department, and the Reno PD issued two dozen… read more

April might be National Distracted Driving Awareness Month throughout the country, but Canadian law enforcement officials are cracking down on cellphone usage at the wheel as well.  Yesterday, the Ontario Provincial Police began a campaign that seeks to root out those persons who insist on texting or talking on a cellphone while driving.  They’re also… read more

Although the entire month is dedicated to rooting out distracted driving across the state of California, some local law enforcement agencies are concentrating their resources on cracking down during one particular day or week.  Sausalito Police, for instance, will be commemorating Distracted Driving Awareness Month with an enforcement operation scheduled to run throughout the day… read more

The Sheriff’s Department of Santa Barbara County is warning drivers to remove distracted driving from their lives, especially now that spring break in the area has drawn to a close and kids head back to school.  Drivers are being asked to use particular caution when navigating through school zones.  Santa Barbara County, like all other… read more

We recently brought you word of the California Highway Patrol’s efforts to root out distracted driving in the Santa Cruz area, and now we’re also getting a sense of how successful an anti-distracted driving campaign has been in Los Angeles County. From April 1 through April 7, a whopping 2,183 citations were issued to distracted… read more

We’re beginning to get a sense of how successful this month’s distracted driving crackdown has been.  The Santa Cruz chapter of the California Highway Patrol has announced the results of its efforts over the first nine days of the enforcement campaign, and when you extrapolate the figures outward to take into account the tickets issued… read more

The California Office of Traffic Safety has made funds available to police agencies across the state so that they can crack down on texting and cellphone usage as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  In the city of Industry, officers will be ratcheting up their efforts on Wednesday, April 24.  The Captain of the… read more

This coming Sunday will see millions of people across the country tuning in to the season finale of a certain popular show about zombies.  So it makes a sort of sense that safety agencies would attempt to take advantage of the trending topic to raise awareness about important subjects. That could by why the California… read more

The Gilroy Police Department is one of the many California agencies taking part in a cellphone driving crackdown throughout the month of April.  This is being conducted as part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  If a person in the city of Gilroy, or the rest of the state for that matter, is caught texting or… read more

Yesterday, we brought you word of a distracted driving crackdown taking place all across California during the month of April.  Now, we’re getting some clue as to how local police plan to approach the endeavor.  The California Highway Patrol is one of the many entities taking part in the operation, and the Redwood City branch… read more