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Cell phone industry picks profits over car accident deaths caused by distracted drivers
How often do you avoid car wrecks almost caused by drivers on cell phones? Or perhaps you’ve been injured already by such distracted drivers. In either case, the phone industry doesn’t care. Wireless service providers made $148 billion last year, and the thousands of Americans killed and hurt by distracted drivers using their product are [...]
CellControl could curb distracted driving, cell phone accidents
The world is dangerous enough beyond our control, yet many of us also need protection from ourselves. That includes the millions of Americans who blithely chat on cell phones, send and receive texts and otherwise disengage from their primary — and life-protecting — task of driving a car.
With thousands dead and hundreds of thousands injured [...]
Parents can help teens tackle driving distractions, reduce car accidents
With a national summit on distracted drivers set for this week, studies due today from the journal Pediatrics show that parents can have a huge effect on how effective — or distracted — their teen drivers become.
Conducted by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA and given funding by State Farm Insurance Co., the studies show that [...]
New Texas law helps war on drunk driving accidents
America is at war — not with another country, but with its own drunk drivers. You may not sense that your country is at war with them, but drunk drivers — by default if not design — are definitely at war with America, inflicting far more deaths, injuries and damages that many military conflicts.
Each year, [...]
