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WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The National Safety Council estimates that at least 28 percent of all traffic crashes -- or at least 1.6 million crashes each year -- are caused by drivers using cell phones and texting.
Read More →REDDING, CA - A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing the female passenger of one of the vehicles, according to the New York Times.
Read More →AUBURN HILLS, MI - Effectively immediately, all Chrysler Group employees are prohibited from texting while driving in company-owned vehicles and texting with company-provided communication devices while driving personal vehicles.
Read More →PROVIDENCE, RI --- Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri has signed into law a bill banning texting while driving, making the state the 19th to implement such a ban.
Read More →HARRISBURG, PA --- The Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee on Tuesday, Nov. 10, unanimously approved state legislation that would ban texting behind the wheel.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, has written a bill that would give federal funds to states that enact laws banning driving while texting or talking on a hand-held device.
Read More →NEW YORK --- U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer has released a new report estimating that nearly 100 teenagers were killed in the New York City area in just the past five years in accidents where the driver was found to be texting while driving.
Read More →DALLAS - In addition to participating in the upcoming Distracted Driving Summit, AT&T is also incorporating a section on the dangers of texting while driving in its defensive driving classes for employees who drive on the job.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- AAA announced that the motor club plans to work to pass laws banning text messaging by drivers in all 50 states by 2013.
Read More →PHOENIX, AZ --- Though he believes that behind-the-wheel texting poses a serious safety risk, one Arizona highway safety official is publicly expressing doubts that more stringent laws provide a viable solution.
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