Category: Distracted Driving

Texting while driving is an extremely dangerous act. According to Distraction.gov, the official U.S. government website for distracted driving, in a single recent year, there were 3,154 people killed in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver. Many of these…

Updated on October 3, 2023. Originally published on October 15, 2015. For teenagers, getting a driver’s license is a rite of passage. As parents, we remember our own excitement at passing our driving exam and getting our first set of…

The car is supposed to be the place where you concentrate on safely getting from place to place. Increasingly, though, a number of technological and other diversions can distract you from the task at hand. Distracted driving is leading to more and…

Everyone knows it’s dangerous. More than 3,000 people died because of it in a single year. But nearly everyone does it at some point – driving while distracted. A distraction is anything that takes your attention away from the task…

According to a recent study, distracted drivers were to blame for an increasing share of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities from 2005 to 2010, even as overall traffic fatalities went down. Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center used data from…

If phone conversations, Internet use and texting while driving aren’t dangerous enough, taking photographs with phone cameras has become the latest hazard, CNN reported recently. Many young drivers reportedly are taking “selfies,” short for self-portraits, behind the wheel. In fact, the photo-sharing site Instagram…

Texting while driving is unquestionably a dangerous habit. Now a legendary filmmaker has produced a documentary that shows real people whose lives have been directly affected by the tragic aftermath of texting behind the wheel. Werner Herzog’s film, called “From…

Distracted driving played a role in approximately 10 percent of more than 65,000 fatal car accidents in the United States in 2010 and 2011, according to an analysis of federal crash data by Erie Insurance. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System, a…