Lawmakers in the state of Texas are pondering whether or not the time is nigh to pass a ban on texting while driving, but in the meantime, the state’s Department of Transportation has rolled out a new awareness campaign as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  Called “Talk. Text. Crash,” the campaign will feature… read more

Florida may be about to pass a texting ban, but in other states, lawmakers are ironing out the kinks of measures that have been in place for years.  Here in California, legislators are pondering whether or not to ban even hands-free texting while driving, with some arguing that focus is pulled even when a person’s… read more

The state of Florida has drawn one step closer to the enactment of a law that would ban texting and driving on the roads.  If eventually passed, it will join the ranks of states like California and many more that have already outlawed the practice. Yesterday, the bill was approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary… read more

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is considering a potential ban on all cellphone usage behind the wheel.  At the moment, only persons younger than 18 are barred from using their cellphones while driving.  That law even makes it illegal to talk or text on a phone using hands-free technology.  The proposed bill was… read more

Police across the entire state of California are cracking down on distracted driving throughout the month of April, and officers in the city of Santa Monica are no different.  But whereas officers in other localities are honoring Distracted Driving Awareness Month by targeting drivers for a day or a couple weeks or even the entire… read more

A court decision could prove to have an impact on the way that California’s cellphone driving ban is understood and enforced.  The decision is made even more important when you consider that April has been designated as National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, an event that will find officers with the California Highway Patrol and other… read more

The threat of distracted driving shows no signs of abating.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released statistics which show that fatalities related to distracted driving were up in 2011 to 3,331 people killed.  That’s nearly 240 more than the number of fatalities the year prior.  But interestingly, injury rates actually declined by about… read more

Recently, a news team took to the road with the Santa Maria sector of the California Highway Patrol to test out the efficacy of three apps which aim to limit a driver’s ability to text or talk on their cellphones at the wheel.  First up was Drive Safe, possibly the most well known of the… read more

The Eureka Police Department is confident that this year’s enforcement effort during Distracted Driving Awareness Month will prove to be even more of a success than last year.  That was the sentiment from the Senior Traffic Officer of the department in a new report.  Not only will Eureka PD be cracking down on texters and… read more

Florida may soon join an ever-lengthier list of states that have passed a ban on texting while driving.  If passed, a violation would be considered a secondary offense, meaning that a police officer could not pull a person over unless the texting led he or she to commit some other illegal act, such as swerving… read more

In Virginia, texting while driving was already considered illegal, but some felt that the measure as it currently stood was not sufficiently stringent.  At the moment, texting at the wheel is only designated as a secondary offense, meaning that a driver cannot be pulled over unless he or she is first shown to be engaging… read more

A new report explains that talking on a cellphone and texting at the wheel aren’t the only distracting activities that could draw the ire of the California Highway Patrol and other police entities as part of their crackdown operation running through the end of April as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  A member… read more