Distracted drivers beware! The police are after you. Speedwatch volunteers are teaming up with RCMP to spot and cite offenders. Distracted driving is responsible for 25 percent of all accidents over the last five years and is now the third leading cause of auto fatalities. ICBC safety coordinator Don Miller advises you’re four times more …
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Distracted Drivers Targeted by Police
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Is Making Coffee While Driving Safe?
Posted Sep 6th, 2012 By admin in Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffThere are advertisements about a car that can make coffee. The promotion is from a foreign vehicle maker. The new model of their car is equipped with a coffee maker. The brand of automobile is coming America. Since distracted driving is a very hot topic recently, preparing hot liquid while driving may not be the …
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Texting While Driving Ban On Council’s Docket
Posted Sep 6th, 2012 By admin in Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffSioux Falls City Council recently introduced an amendment to the distracted driving ordinance that would exclude GPS units from the list of banned devices. The current ban also includes the use of PDA’s, smart phones, email, mp3, laptops, and others related to any device that can send or receive messages. Some of the exceptions are …
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Teens Learn Driving Dangers with Simulatora
Posted Aug 30th, 2012 By admin in Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffIn Indiana, high school students at North Central High School on the north-side of Indianapolis got a chance to drive a simulator provided by AT&T in cooperation with Indiana Criminal Justice Institute and the Attorney Generals office to spread the message. The students discovered that while most of the time there was not an issue, …
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Grant Issued to States that Pass Distracted Driving Laws
Posted Aug 29th, 2012 By admin in Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffA new grant from recent legislation will provide $17.5 million to states passing distracted driving laws after a recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that estimates in 2010 there were just over 3,000 people killed and just over 400,000 people injured in distraction related accidents involving texting and cell phone use. Currently …
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Glendale Police Receives Grant
Posted Aug 21st, 2012 By admin in Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffThe city of Glendale, California will be part of a state funded education program aimed at teaching residents and motor vehicle users the importance of not using a cell phone when driving. The Glendale Police Department will receive grant money from the California Office of Traffic Safety to help their efforts at keeping drivers impaired …
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Distracted Driver Crashes on I-44
Posted Aug 9th, 2012 By admin in Auto Accident, Car Accident Lawyer, Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffA tragic accident occurred the other day in an SUV in Franklin County. The passenger was killed in the accident. A man was killed in the accident, as it is reported that the woman driving was driving distracted. The relationship between them is unclear. This is another accident caused by distracted driving, in a quickly …
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The Truth About the Distracted Driving Epidemic
Posted Aug 9th, 2012 By admin in Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffDistracted driving kills, and recent reports that an alarming amount of people, especially younger people, regularly take part in this dangerous act. An astonishing fifty two percent of people 18 to 29 reported as having texted or sent emails while driving in the last thirty days. This is especially dangerous as it takes the drivers …
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States Try to Prevent Distracted Driver Crashes
Posted Jul 24th, 2012 By admin in Auto Accident, Car Accident Lawyer, Car Safety, Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Uncategorized With | Comments OffTry as they may, lawmakers are facing challenges when enforcing distracted driving laws. Distracted drivers are deadly on the roads and laws, including the strict laws coming out of Georgia are doing little to curb the dangerous behaviors. A sea change needs to take place that will incite individuals to behave more appropriately behind the …
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Distracted Driving Consequences
Posted Jul 24th, 2012 By admin in Distracted Driving, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Lawyer, Uncategorized With | Comments OffNew Jersey now made it a law that those who drive while using a cell phone will receive as much responsibility for harming someone in an accident as if they were driving under the influence due to a related accident that harmed three people. Whether one will receive jail time or a heavy fine will …
