AT & T recently took to the General Assembly in Raleigh, North Carolina to draw newfound awareness to their “It Can Wait” anti-distracted driving campaign.  Lawmakers were on hand to test out a texting and driving simulator that was brought by the area.  The Speaker of the House explained that getting North Carolina to live… read more

South Dakota recently failed to acquire the votes necessary to secure the passage of a texting and driving ban, but that hasn’t dissuaded the city of Mitchell from pursuing their own ban on the habit.  Yesterday, the City Council elected to pass a texting ban, adding Mitchell to a list of likeminded cities such as… read more

Online Auto Insurance has issued a press release that details those states across the country with the most and least stringent texting and driving laws.  The study apparently only took into consideration those states that have passed a texting ban.  Alaska was shown to have the most severe penalties in place for those persons caught… read more

Florida has inched one step closer to a ban on texting and driving now that the State Senate has passed the measure that would outlaw the practice.  The bill was heard this morning, and it receive unanimous support in the legislative body.  Now, the proposed law will move to the House.  If passed there, all… read more

Although the entire month is dedicated to rooting out distracted driving across the state of California, some local law enforcement agencies are concentrating their resources on cracking down during one particular day or week.  Sausalito Police, for instance, will be commemorating Distracted Driving Awareness Month with an enforcement operation scheduled to run throughout the day… read more

This coming Sunday, the city of Santa Maria will hold an anti-distracted driving event called “Eric’s Run.”  Named after a Berkeley student who was killed while aboard his bicycle along the side of a road, the event will act as a fundraiser for an organization whose goal it is to curb distracted driving.  The young… read more

A recent tragedy in Greeley, Colorado shows the human toll that texting and driving can take.  Too often, it’s easy to get bogged down in the numbers regarding crashes and citations and the like and forget that every single one of those numbers represents someone whose life may have been irrevocably altered by texting at… read more

With officers across California cracking down on distracted driving throughout the month of April, one would hope that drivers are getting the message and beginning to refrain from using their phones in any manner behind the wheel.  But a new survey out of San Diego shows that the danger is still readily apparent on Southern… read more

In Louisiana, texting while driving is illegal, but traffic officers attempting to issue a citation to drivers who look to be engaging in the act have come across a roadblock:  many an offender will claim that they weren’t texting at all.  Instead, they argue that they were logged on to social media to send a… read more

Even as Texas lawmakers get ready to consider a texting and driving ban, the city of Houston is taking matters into its own hands.  Yesterday, the Public Safety Committee of the Houston City Council met to talk about a potential statute that would make texting at the wheel an illegal act.  The meeting only involved… read more

The Sheriff’s Department of Santa Barbara County is warning drivers to remove distracted driving from their lives, especially now that spring break in the area has drawn to a close and kids head back to school.  Drivers are being asked to use particular caution when navigating through school zones.  Santa Barbara County, like all other… read more

We’re beginning to get a sense of how successful this month’s distracted driving crackdown has been.  The Santa Cruz chapter of the California Highway Patrol has announced the results of its efforts over the first nine days of the enforcement campaign, and when you extrapolate the figures outward to take into account the tickets issued… read more