Study Finds Hands-Free Cellphone Laws Effective at Preventing Deaths, Injuries August 4, 2021 New research finds that hands-free cellphone laws are associated with fewer driver deaths, and laws in 21 states allowing only...
Getting Americans to Stop Using Phones While Driving April 29, 2019 By Kyle Stock The distracted driving report by Zendrive, a traffic-data startup, makes it clearer and clearer each year that millions of Americans...
How Cell Phone Use While Driving Is Changing January 28, 2019 By IIHS Manipulating a cellphone was a contributing factor in more than 800 crash deaths on U.S. roads during 2017 amid a...
Workers’ Compensation Insurers Face Rise in Motor Vehicle Accidents August 14, 2018 Although there has been an overall decline in workers’ compensation claims, the frequency of claims for motor vehicle accidents has...
Half of Parents Use Cell Phones While Driving with Kids in Car July 13, 2018 About half of parents talk on a cell phone while driving when their children between the ages of 4 and...
More Than 100 Motorists Stopped on First Day of Georgia Hands-Free Law July 6, 2018 State troopers made over a hundred stops enforcing Georgia’s new hands-free driving law Sunday, the first day the law was...
Georgia Bans Use of Handheld Devices While Driving May 16, 2018 Georgia has become the latest state to ban the use of handheld devices while behind the wheel. Gov. Nathan Deal...
Why Having Cell Phone Conversations While Driving Is Risky June 5, 2017 It’s generally acknowledged that talking on a cell phone impedes driving ability. But new research from the University of Iowa...
Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Leads Motorists to Check Social Media While Driving August 26, 2016 Social media and FOMO (fear of missing out) could be putting road-users at risk, as motorists admit to checking social...
PEMCO Poll: Nearly Half of Northwest Drivers Use Phones Behind the Wheel June 20, 2016 Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance announced that nearly half of Northwest drivers admit they illegally use their phones while driving – and...