A new state-specific study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicates that speeding in Virginia increased during the early months of COVID-19, and the behavior has become the new normal.
The Virginia Senate recently passed a bill to raise the reckless driving threshold from over 80 to over 85 mph in a 70 mph zone.
With the goal of tightening an existing law prohibiting texting while driving, both houses of Virginia's General Assembly recently voted to ban the use of handheld mobile devices while operating a motor vehicle.
Virginia drivers were 57% more likely to manipulate a cellphone in 2018 than they were when IIHS conducted the same study in 2014, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found in an observational survey.
A new survey from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles finds that 15.9% of motorists are driving without a seat belt — a slight bump up over a record low of 14.7% in 2017.
In 2016, 175 people died and thousands more suffered injuries in distracted driving-related collisions in Virginia, according to some state legislators. That trend has prompted them to propose a number of bills aimed at curbing distracted driving. Video courtesy of NBC29 WVIR.
Analysis of federal crash data also shows that the rate of road fatalities tied to careless and reckless driving is lowest in the states of Virginia and New York.
Some state driver texting bans have delivered disappointing results, largely because of factors that make enforcement nearly impossible.
A new bill proposes doubling the penalties for texting while driving in Virginia. But a representative of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police points out problems hindering enforcement of the texting ban. Here's a report from CBS 6 WTVR News.
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researchers demonstrate self-driving and connected-vehicle technologies while traveling on I-395.
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