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Ohio’s traffic laws made a pivotal change this year, and some new legislation could call for more change in the new year. In January, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new distracted driving law, which ...
Oct. 16—LIMA — The Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio State Highway Patrol teamed up Wednesday to discuss distracted driving trends, a year after Ohio's distracted driving law went ...
Oct. 5—Crashes have decreased in Ohio in the six months since the state passed a law increasing penalties for distracted driving, according to data from the Ohio State Highway Patrol. During the ...
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
One year after Ohio's distracted driving law took effect, the state patrol reports fewer crashes and fatalities and way more tickets. You are more likely to get a ticket on Ohio highways now than ...
Illinois became the seventeenth U.S. state to enforce this law. [54] As of July 2010, 30 states had banned texting while driving, with Kentucky becoming the most recent addition on July 15. [55] Public Health Law Research maintains a list of distracted driving laws in the United States. This database of laws provides a comprehensive view of the ...
How many distracted driving violations were there in 2023? State data shows an increase since Ohio's new distracted driving law took effect last year.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT; / ˈ oʊ. d ɒ t /) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government [2] responsible for developing and maintaining all state and U.S. roadways outside of municipalities and all Interstates except the Ohio Turnpike.