The National Safety Council thinks that the country is moving in the right direction in regards to teaching teenagers about the dangers of driving while using a cellphone. Recently, Congress passed a Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill which authorized a $13 million grant program that could be utilized by states to create programs which would slowly… read more

The Transportation Secretary, who has made it his responsibility to get states to ban cellphone use in cars, has expressed his pleasure with the new Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria Guideline, which allows police officials to recognize specific distracted driving behaviors as a reason for a car crash. Some things officials will now need to… read more

Teen texting and driving is rapidly becoming a very serious and dangerous problem, which is why there are two companies that are trying to put a stop to it. Cellcontrol is software that you can download to your child’s phone that will prevent them from using the phone, displaying an error message on their screen…. read more

Auto insurance provider 4autoinsurancequote.com has found that texting while driving increases insurance rates. They also found that texting has more than doubled since 2005 and that mobile phone-related accidents increased sharply around 2008. In 2009 there were over 24,000 injury accidents due to mobile phone use (1,000 additional crashes led to fatalities). Greater awareness of… read more

Texting and driving is still an issue in 2012, even with new regulations in place. In 2011, as much as 23 percent of auto accidents involved mobile phone usage of some kind. It is reported that five seconds of reaction time is taken away when a driver is focusing on their text instead of focusing… read more

A new $85 fine will now be imposed on drivers in the state of Idaho who are found to be texting while driving. Senate bill 12-74 establishing the fine was passed in March with a vote of 29 to six. While other phone functions are not specifically mentioned in the bill, Lewiston police officers say… read more

In Idaho, the ban on texting while driving, along with laws pertaining to animal cruelty, licensing of massage therapists and sports safety education, went into effect July 1st. Earlier efforts to pass bills that ban texting on the road had failed. Strong influence on the bill’s passage was probably attributable to the family of a… read more

As the dangers associated with texting while driving because more and more obvious, it’s good to see states bring awareness to troubling statistics and try to educate individuals based off of that awareness. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is doing what it can to warn drivers against texting while behind the wheel of an automobile.  A… read more

Numerous areas from across the United States have launched initiatives designed to teach people about the dangers of distracted driving, and these types of campaigns are especially important to teenagers, a demographic proven to be most at risk.  But perhaps those initiatives that are the most successful are also those that help researchers obtain information… read more

Although many communities from across the country are doing what they can to get drivers to stop driving while distracted, certain locales have launched initiatives that are more detailed and complex than others. On June 15, officials from Old Bridge, East Brunswick, and Middlesex County in New Jersey got together to announce a multi-phase safety… read more

Texting while driving bans are becoming commonplace across the country, particularly at the state level.  But as a new report demonstrates, local communities can face challenges when trying to reconcile their own laws with those of the state as a whole. The city of Twin Falls, Idaho is one such city attempting to prevent confusion… read more

Texting in Arkansas has been illegal for three years now, but as a new report illustrates, that doesn’t necessarily mean that people have curtailed their texting habit. The state’s ban on texting went into effect way back on November 1, 2009 with the passage of Act 181.  But according to statistics from the Arkansas Crime… read more