cell phone accident
Progress is slow, but cell phone accidents take hits
Now that many people have been killed or injured due to cell phone accidents — killed by drivers being distracted while calling or texting — the inevitable but gallingly slow process of legislatively addressing the problem is proceeding.
In Texas alone this week, some progress has been seen in communities around Houston, as well as in [...]
Cell phone device may ease auto accidents
Finally, progress is being made in the face of mounting carnage on America’s roads due to driver distractions caused by cell phones. And it’s not what you might expect.
No, it’s not a new state law, such as those in New York and California, which bans using cell phones while driving without a headset that frees [...]
Callers, texters are slaughtering innocents
What will it take to get the message through to Americans that we are slaughtering each other on our roads, highways and train lines, and all for the sake of a phone call or a text message that could have waited?
Perhaps a catastrophic train wreck will be our wake-up call? Or perhaps school bus carnage? [...]
25 train victims may have died due to text-messaging
It’s bad enough that cell phone and text messaging distractions have meant many fatalities and serious injuries on America’s roads and highways. Now such driver distractions also may be to blame for up to 25 fatalities in a horrendous train collision in California.
A commuter train slammed into a freight train last Friday reportedly due to [...]
West University cell ban a good example for everyone
As the reality of deaths and injuries caused by cell phone and PDA distractions sinks in for America, the nation slowly adjusts to what’s long been a very real and very serious threat. That adjustment includes a new ordinance in the Houston-area community of West University. There, drivers on the first day of school began [...]
