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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.
The Centers for Disease Control states when you look down to text or read a text for five seconds at 55 miles per hour, it is the same as driving across a football field without looking at the ...
The Eugene Police Department is starting a street enforcement operation in April to encourage safe driving behavior in honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
In the United States, automobile crashes due to distracted driving are increasing even after the passage of laws intended to lessen such use while driving. Using a cell phone while driving increases the driver's risk of causing a crash. Drivers can become distracted, decreasing the driver's awareness on the road, leading to more car crashes.
Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaging in other activities which distract the driver's attention away from the road. Distractions are shown to compromise the safety of the driver, passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Cellular device use while behind the wheel is one of the most common forms of distracted driving.
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 ...
The Kiefer Foundation's simple message: “When you are behind the wheel, put your phones away and Just Drive.” About 94% of people recognize that driving distracted is dangerous, yet over 84% ...
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