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April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. This week the Crawford County Sheriff's Office and other agencies are stepping up enforcement.
Age group. Drivers holding phones to their ears. Drivers with visible headsets. Drivers manipulating handheld devices. Age 16–24. 3.7%. 0.2%. 5.4%. Age 25–69
Background on: Distracted Driving – Insurance Information Institute; Driven to Distraction – Articles in this series from The New York Times (July 2009 to January 2010) examine the dangers of drivers using cellphones and other electronic devices. Meta-Study on Driver Distraction and Voice Interaction (Fraunhofer IAO/Carnegie Mellon University)
Texting while driving is considered extremely dangerous by many people, including authorities, and in some places has either been outlawed or restricted. As a form of distracted driving, texting while driving significantly increases the chances that a driver will be involved in a motor vehicle accident.
Support for National Teen Driver Safety Week has grown, and the media coverage for this initiative has been overwhelming. Celebrities, including singer/songwriter Jesse McCartney, racecar driver Zach Veach and television personality Oprah Winfrey, [7] have formally endorsed the week, and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood [8] acknowledged distracted driving as an epidemic, calling for ...
Highway fatalities are on the rise again — 46,000 in the U.S. in 2022, up 22%, according to numbers released last week.How many of those deaths involved distracted driving? “It’s much bigger ...
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 ...
More than 3,500 people died in car accidents involving a distracted driver, according to the most recent available data from the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2021.. In recent years, one of ...