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Car accident deaths down, despite rise in distracted driving fatalities
Driving deaths overall are down in America, but could be much lower without one thing: distracted drivers who call or text at the wheel. A new report by the U.S. Department of Transportation reveals the United States had 33,963 traffic fatalities in 2009, a drop of 8.9 per cent from 2008. With driving deaths declining [...]
New national ban on bus, truck texting fights distracted driving car crash crush
Like a car on freshly-inflated tires, the national momentum to outlaw texting while driving keeps on rolling. Today the U.S. Department of Transportation placed an immediate ban on interstate commercial bus and truck drivers fidgeting with texting gadgets when they should be paying full attention to the road.
After all, they’re getting paid to drive, aren’t [...]
As car crash accidents rise, more states ban distracted driving via texting, talking by cell phone
Jim S. Adler & Associates has campaigned for years against the cell phone accident dangers of talking or texting while driving. Now many state governments are seeing the light. Nineteen states already ban texting while driving, while 23 more are assessing such legislation. In fact, 34 states are considering proposed bills either to ban or [...]
FocusDriven to fight distracted driver car accident carnage
A woman in Grapevine, Texas, whose mother was killed by distracted driving has launched a national nonprofit group to fight distracted drivers and comfort their victims. Called FocusDriven, the organization was envisioned at last fall’s Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
About 6,000 Americans died last year due to [...]
PCs on car dashboards will bring ERs large crash hordes
Shamelessly picking profits over safety, Google and Intel Corporation are pushing computer screens for car dashboards. That’s right: Drivers near you soon will careen into you thanks to such infotainment “progress.”
The computer and Internet industry’s brazen irresponsibility is especially galling given the thousands of Americans who already are killed and maimed by distracted drivers fixated [...]
Talking, texting, distracted driving in Texas school zones is illegal — sometimes
With 19 states and the District of Columbia now making it illegal to text while driving, you wonder when Texas will wise up. So far, only municipalities have passed such laws, the biggest being Austin. And the only state law on the books protects only school children by making it illegal to text or use [...]
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 [...]
Distracted driving kills on the ground–and frightens in the air
For those who say “I know how to drive and I’m just going to the store” when texting or making cell calls behind the wheel, how would you feel about an airline pilot doing the same? In effect that’s what happened last week when an Airbus overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.
Delta Airlines says its pilots [...]
Austin has a capital idea: new law banning texting while driving
Though Texas has failed to join the 19 states so far which ban texting while driving — a no-brainer law if ever there was one — at least some Texas cities are passing such laws, and the latest and largest is our capital city of Austin.
On Thursday Austin City Council unanimously passed a ban on [...]
As ‘accident’ victims, pedestrians, cyclists are second class citizens in Texas
An item in today’s San Antonio Express-News shows how far Texas has to go to treat pedestrians and cyclists with respect on our roads. It pertains to a horrible accident last week in which a San Antonio-area couple riding a tandem bicycle on a road’s shoulder were hit and killed by a pickup truck traveling [...]
