Distracted Driving

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Serious and, often times, fatal crashes are the result of distracted driving. Anytime you take your eyes off the road, your hands off the steering wheel, and/or take your mind off driving, you become a distracted driver.

Resist the urge to text, talk on a cell phone, eat or drink while driving. Use this page to learn about the dangers of distracted driving, how to stay safe while driving, and what you can do to reduce the number of serious and fatal crashes on Idaho's highways.

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1 U.S. bans texting by truck and bus drivers
Truck and bus drivers who travel interstate roadways are now banned from using a handheld device to send text messages, U.S. officials said.
2 Be careful: Texting may live forever
Millions of Americans let their fingers do the talking.
3 Taking Safety into Their Own Hands
Five days a week, as Chasity Clower makes the hour-long drive from her home here to work in Winchester, Va., she keeps her BlackBerry in hand, sending out and responding to text messages from friends, co-workers and relatives.
4 Sad Lesson: Hang up and drive
Perhaps the sobering particulars of an Orange County mother's death will give Triangle drivers the resolve we need to hang up our phones.
5 Utah Tackles Texting And Driving Problem Head-On
Drivers use the University of Utah's Applied Cognition Laboratory driving simulator to see the effects of texting behind the wheel. Research shows that texting while driving results in impairment levels double that of drunken driving.
6 Kyleigh's Law Bill A4021
The #1 killer of teenagers doesn’t have a trigger
7 Lawmakers Hear Texting While Driving Bill
Nebraska Father Who Lost Daughter To Distracted Driver Testifies
8 New interest in technology to reduce texting while driving
The Senate Commerce Committee yesterday held a hearing on distracted driving, primarily discussing a bill dropped by Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who got a bit fired up when he felt others on the panel weren't taking seriously the issue of texting while driving.
9 Riding (and Dying) With Friends
I know there's a lot to read here. I can't help myself. I probably talk to much, too. Just be grateful I'm not in your living room, you know, talking to you. Because I'm the guy who won't leave.
10 Lots of press about texting, cell phones, driving
Wow. There's been a flood of coverage of the risks associated with texting while driving and, properly, we're not just beating up on teens--but challenging all of us about this reckless behavior.
11 A third of teens say they’ve texted while driving
A third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
12 Distracted Driving - NHTSA
13 Toyota supports a Road Safety Force To Send an Important Message Where It Can Do The Most Good: "Driving While Texting (DWT) Is Nuts."
14 Department of Transportation DOT News Update
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the creation of FocusDriven, the first national nonprofit organization devoted specifically to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving.
15 Focus Driven - Advocates for Cell-Free Driving
16 NHTSA Distracted Driving Stats
Data has been released by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on teens and distracted driving. The states collected 2010 data to determine those teenagers killed in distracted driving crashes. Read more
17 Put On the B.R.E.A.K.S.
18 Best Buy - At 15
19 Parents lose daughter to texting on the road
20 The Concentration Game

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