There are many stories of people who took their eyes off the road for a second to read or type a message and ended up in an accident that changed their lives and the lives of others forever. People who …
Idaho State Police say they have issued 66 citations statewide for texting while driving since the texting ban took effect a year ago. The Post Register reported that 16 of those citations since July 1, 2012, occurred in Bonneville County. …
New Jersey is stiffening the penalties for motorists who use handheld cellphones to talk or text. A bill signed into law Thursday increases the fine to a minimum of $200 and a maximum of $400 for a first offense. A …
Continuing its campaign to change the dangerous behavior of driving while distracted, the Arbella Insurance Foundation announced that it will make a state-of-the-art text-blocking technology solution more affordable to hundreds of drivers in an effort to curb multi-tasking at the …
Kristy Robinson admits she is more likely to text at a stoplight when she’s running late. “And I’m always late,” she adds. But the 32-year-old South Bend resident isn’t the only one who finds it tempting to text behind the …
The Florida House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed its version of a statewide ban on texting, but a late change close to the end of the legislative session cast some uncertainty over its fate. The measure passed the House on a …
The father of a 16-year-old Maine girl killed in a car crash last year has sued the driver and three others. Rebecca Mason’s father this week filed suit in Oxford County Superior Court against 19-year-old Kristina Lowe, the driver of …
Police say a woman who crashed her car in Bennington, Vt., while texting tried to blame the accident on her estranged husband. Thirty-year-old Tanya Taylor pleaded not guilty to a felony count of impeding a public office and misdemeanor counts …
Authorities say a northern Ohio man who died after a crash on Interstate 75 was texting while driving. Toledo police said 51-year-old Ken Harder died Tuesday from injuries suffered in the violent crash Monday afternoon. The Blade newspaper reports Harder …
A 2009 Missouri law that bans young drivers from using their cell phones to send text messages has led to few citations and remains difficult to enforce, a Columbia newspaper reports. The Columbia Missourian reports that an average of fewer …