At Booker T. Washington High School in Pensacola, Florida, the students recently received a lesson in safe driving. AT & T brought high tech texting while driving simulators to the school as part of their It Can Wait campaign. The program is designed to communicate that texting while behind the wheel is a dangerous practice,… read more

A 22 year old who suffered a brain injury when he was involved in a car accident is talking to students throughout the country, and his travels recently brought him to New Albany High School in Indiana. He told students there the story of his injury and how it was caused because his girlfriend was… read more

The Wahpeton, North Dakota City Council made a few important decisions recently, including passing an ordinance regarding distracted driving. The amendment that was passed states that it is illegal to read or send messages from handheld devices while behind the wheel.  If you are a minor. you cannot be on your phone at all.  Violators… read more

In New Jersey, students at Gloucester County College recently got to see what it’s like to text and drive without the inherent danger involved in the act. A simulator was brought in to show students that texting and driving could easily take a person’s life due to attention being diverted from the road.  A member… read more

Students at Harrison Central High School in Mississippi were recently able to take part in an educational campaign offered by AT & T wherein they were taught about the dangers of texting and driving. Part of the program involved a meeting with the parents of former students who were killed in an accident due to… read more

A driving simulator will be at The Longest Student Health Center at Mississippi State University to show how dangerous it can be to text and drive at the same time.  There are an estimated 660,000 drivers on the road who are too busy with their phones to pay full attention to their driving, and students… read more

A new article discusses a public awareness campaign in Quebec, Canada focused on texting while driving. It describes several humorous television ads and a few far more serious ads put on the radio. The article notes that while almost everyone deplores the practice of texting behind the wheel, a significant number of people engage in… read more

A new article provides the unique perspective of an Aurora, Illinois police commander who has seen firsthand the tragic effects of attempting to text while driving. She once came upon a scene where a woman was driving home to her son’s birthday party only to be killed in an accident that looks to have taken… read more

The city of Kalispell is considering banning the use of cellphones behind the wheel. Their efforts would follow several US cities that have banned this practice, as well as a number of nearby areas in Montana. Driving while using cellphones is very dangerous and distracted driving can and does cause accidents. However, these types of… read more

A Detroit, Michigan-based AT & T employee developed the free mobile application that she and others hope will help save lives by combatting the growing epidemic of texting and driving. The free DriveMode app can be used to automatically respond to incoming calls and text messages with a busy message preprogrammed by the user.  The… read more

A whopping 179 drivers were found by employees of Allstate in Canada to be driving while distracted. On Thursday, the insurance company conducted several concurrent surveys throughout the country during the morning rush hour, all in a bid to bring awareness to the fact that driving while distracted is extremely dangerous. Sherwood Park had some… read more

As part of a national campaign aimed at educating everyone about the dangers of texting while driving, a Florida high school in Tampa recently had 1,800 students sign a pledge never to engage in the dangerous practice. The Wharton High School PTSA led a four-month project to upgrade its driver education program by incorporating information… read more