Latest Distracted Driving Headlines
All the headlines from our Distracted Driving Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thousands of Maryland Drivers Ticketed for Cell Phone Use
Oct 3 2011 // Maryland police agencies have issued thousands of tickets to drivers for using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel in the year since a ban took effect. Records from more than 70 police agencies in the state that...
Push for Ban on Trucker Cellphones
Oct 3 2011 // The U.S. government should ban truckers from using cellphones while driving except in emergencies, transportation safety investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendation came after it...
U.S. Safety Board Pushes for Trucker Cellphone Ban
Sep 14 2011 // The U.S. government should ban truckers from using cellphones while driving except in emergencies, transportation safety investigators said on Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendation came...
North Dakota Ban on Texting While Driving Takes Effect
Aug 2 2011 // North Dakota’s ban on texting while driving is now in effect. More than 30 states so far have approved laws against motorists sending text messages when they’re behind the wheel. Until now in North Dakota, only...
Arkansas Begins ‘Don’t Text While Driving’ Campaign
Jul 18 2011 // Arkansas motorists are about to get a steady stream of reminders that it can be deadly to text while behind the wheel. Digital message boards across the state will bear the message, “Stay Alive, Don’t Text and...
Kentucky Police Say Texting While Driving Law Tough to Enforce
Jul 7 2011 // Kentucky police agencies say the commonwealth’s texting-while-driving statute is well intended, but difficult to enforce. The law took effect a year ago, but officers issued only verbal warnings for the first six...
Philly Boat Crash Intensifies Distracted Driving Debate
Jul 4 2011 // The nation risks a surge in deadly accidents unless it makes distracted driving – talking, texting and surfing the Internet while operating cars, boats and trains – as taboo as drunken driving, members of the...
Rhode Island Senate Passes Seat Belt, Cell Phone Driver Bills
Jun 27 2011 // The Rhode Island Senate has advanced two bills on driver safety, one boosting seat belt enforcement and another banning young drivers from using cell phones while behind the wheel. The cell phone proposal would make it...
Texas Governor Vetoes Texting While Driving Bill
Jun 20 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed 23 bills on June 17, including legislation that would have outlawed sending or reading text messages while driving. Lawmakers approved the texting ban last month, but Perry called it an...
Employers Look the Other Way On Distracted Driving
Jun 20 2011 // A recent survey appears to confirm that there is growing concern among corporate managers about distracted driving risks and liability. Fifty percent of companies with more than 500 drivers said they have knowledge or...
New York Governor Wants Tougher Penalty for Texting Drivers
Jun 13 2011 // Drivers who text behind the wheel in New York now run little risk of being pulled over by the police, but that would change under a proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The governor said Friday that he plans to introduce a bill...
Nevada OSHA Encourages Employers to Ban Texting While Driving
Jun 3 2011 // The Nevada Occupational Health & Safety Section (OSHA) of the Division of Industrial Relations is hoping to stop one of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving. That’s why it is encouraging employers to...
Employers Looking Other Way On Employees’ Distracted Driving
Jun 2 2011 // A recent survey confirms that there is growing concern among corporate managers about distracted driving risks and liability. Fifty percent of companies with more than 500 drivers said they have knowledge or evidence of...
Delaware: 2,500 Drivers Cited Since Cell Phone Ban Began
May 5 2011 // The Delaware Office of Highway Safety says more than 2,500 drivers have been cited since the state’s hands-free cell phone law went into effect at the beginning of the year. Office spokeswoman Alison Kirk says more...
North Dakota Becomes 31st State to Ban Texting While Driving
Apr 28 2011 // North Dakota the 31st state to ban texting behind the wheel, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood who praised North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple for signing a new law banning the practice. The new law,...
9% of Californians Talk or Text While Driving
Apr 21 2011 // About 9 percent of California drivers talk or text on their cell phone while driving — despite state laws that prohibit such actions. In the first-ever observational survey of cell phone use by drivers within a...
Alabama House Votes to Ban Texting While Driving
Apr 4 2011 // The Alabama House is making a second attempt to ban texting while driving The House voted 86-2 last Thursday for legislation sponsored by Republican Rep. Jim McClendon of Springville. He got a similar bill passed last...
Crackdown on Distracted Drivers Under Way in Connecticut
Mar 30 2011 // Police in Connecticut are bolstering patrols this week to look for distracted drivers as part of a federal pilot program. Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and police officials announced the fourth and final enforcement wave of the...
North Carolina Debates More Fines on Drivers Using Cell Phones
Mar 25 2011 // North Carolina lawmakers already have banned young drivers from using cell phones and everyone else from texting or emails while behind the wheel. Now they’re considering whether to go further. A commerce committee...
Oklahoma Senate Approves Ban on Texting While Driving
Mar 17 2011 // The full Senate has given its support to a bill that would make it illegal to text while driving. State Sen. Jerry Ellis is the author of Senate Bill 146 which was approved on a vote of 32 to 9. “This isn’t a...
