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Study: Texting And Driving Kills More Teens Annually Than Drinking And Driving

Date2013-05-09

Category Distracted Driving

Source CBS NewYork

Texting while driving has now surpassed drinking and driving as the leading cause of death among teens, according to a new study.

Recent analysis indicates cell phone distracted driving crashes vastly under-reported

Date2013-05-07

Category Distracted Driving

Source National Safety Council

Itasca, IL – Today, the National Safety Council released findings from a recent analysis of national statistics on fatal motor vehicle crashes, in a report entitled, “Crashes Involving Cell Phones: Challenges of Collecting and Reporting Reliable Crash Data,” funded in part by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

Mass. bishop pleads not guilty to DUI charge in RI

Date2013-05-07

Category Drunk Driving

Source NewsDay

The leader of a Roman Catholic diocese in Massachusetts charged with driving drunk in Rhode Island pleaded not guilty and was allowed to remain free on $1,000…

Grim Task of Identifying 5 Limo Fire Victims, Including Newlywed

Date2013-05-06

Category Distracted Driving

Source abc News

The grim task of identifying the bodies of five women burned to death in a limousine began today as authorities tried to determine what caused the vehicle to burst into…

Colorado lawmakers pass HB 1325 setting marijuana driving limit

Date2013-05-05

Category Drugged Driving

Source Other

DENVER – After years of debate, state lawmakers have voted for a limit on the amount of marijuana a person can have in their system and legally drive. The state Senate passed House Bill 1325 by a vote of 23-12. That bill says drivers with 5 nanograms or more of THC per milliliter of blood would be considered impaired to drive. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. The level of intoxication would be determined by a blood test.

Study: More than 40 percent of teens text while driving

Date2013-05-05

Category Drugged Driving

Source National Monitor

According to data analyzed by Alexandra Bailin, a research assistant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, and her colleagues, 43 percent…

FWIW, few drivers nabbed by texting bans

Date2013-05-05

Category Drugged Driving

Source USA Today

Statewide texting-while-driving bans have become an increasingly popular tool against the deadly practice since Washington state introduced the first one in 2007; 39 states…

Study: More than 40 percent of teens text while driving

Date2013-05-05

Category Distracted Driving

Source National Monitor

According to data analyzed by Alexandra Bailin, a research assistant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, and her…

FWIW, few drivers nabbed by texting bans

Date2013-05-05

Category Distracted Driving

Source USA Today

Statewide texting-while-driving bans have become an increasingly popular tool against the deadly practice since Washington state introduced the…

You Be the Judge

Date2013-05-04

Category Drunk Driving

Source TMZ

The Reese Witherspoon dash cam arrest video…

Indiana cop accused in fatal drunk-driving crash arrested again

Date2013-04-28

Category Drunk Driving

Source Los Angeles Times

An Indianapolis police officer who faces drunk-driving charges for allegedly crashing into two motorcycles with his patrol car in 2010, killing one rider, has been arrested again on suspicion of drunk…

Indiana cop accused in fatal drunk-driving crash arrested again

Date2013-04-28

Category Drunk Driving

Source Los Angeles Times

An Indianapolis police officer who faces drunk-driving charges for allegedly crashing into two motorcycles with his patrol car in 2010, killing one rider, has been arrested again on suspicion of drunk…

Don’t txt n drive: Teens not getting msg

Date2013-04-04

Category Distracted Driving

Source Medical Xpress

Teens can get hundreds of text messages a day, but one message they aren’t getting is that they shouldn’t text and drive. Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed…

Grandparents struck, killed by driver with DUI arrest history, police say

Date2013-03-27

Category Drunk Driving

Source Fox News

Two grandparents who just moved to Washington from the Midwest to be near their newborn grandson were struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver whose license was…

Ask Amy: Designated driver takes the long walk home

Date2013-03-19

Category Drunk Driving

Source The Washington Post

DEAR AMY: I know that “friends don’t let friends drive drunk,” but the last few times I’ve been in a situation in which I’ve offered to drive or call a cab for friends who’d been drinking, they’ve insisted they were…

Ann Clymer, mother who forced attention on drunken driving, dies at 75

Date2013-02-13

Category Drunk Driving

Source The Washington Post

Jane emily. That was how Ann Clymer’s daughter, an individualist, liked to write her name. Jane emily, with a lowercase “e.”

Sleep doctor on sleep aid morning after: “Like driving drunk”

Date2013-01-11

Category Drugged Driving

Source cbc News

The government agency will now require the recommended dose for women to be cut in half, from ten milligrams to five milligrams, and suggests…

1 in 24 Americans Drives Drowsy, CDC Says

Date2013-01-03

Category Drugged Driving

Source abc News

One in 24 American drivers has admitted to falling asleep at the wheel in the past month, according to a new report on drowsy driving by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …

How to jump-start a movement: changing U.S. gun culture

Date2012-12-20

Category Drunk Driving

Source CNN

Want to change American gun culture? Ask Candace Lightner. Thirty years ago, she did more than almost anyone else to change another seemingly entrenched aspect of American culture: drunk driving.

Driver charged with DUI Marijuana after deadly crash in Vancouver

Date2012-12-17

Category Drugged Driving

Source Fox 12

Investigators said the driver hit and killed a pedestrian around 5:50 p.m. on East Mill Plain Boulevard and …

Man Gets Life In Prison After 8th DWI Conviction

Date2012-11-21

Category Drunk Driving

Source cbs Local

Guadalupe County man arrested for his eighth DWI has been sentenced to life in prison after being pulled over last February with a Blood Alcohol level equivalent to consuming 23.5 …

Judge rejects bid to block Washington state “stoned driving” rules

Date2012-11-07

Category Drugged Driving

Source Reuters

Washington state voters last month approved marijuana legalization by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent, making the state, along with Colorado, the first in the country to legalize recreational pot use.

Sobering Results | Jefferson County judges more lenient than juries on DUI defendants

Date2012-11-02

Category Drunk Driving

Source Courier-journal.com

Jason Sterling drove down the middle of Goldsmith Lane, straddling the center line for about a half-mile on April 14, 2010, before he was pulled over, then failed a field-sobriety test and recorded a blood-alcohol level…

Carolyn Hax: Tell Grandma to hang up and drive

Date2012-10-22

Category Distracted Driving

Source The Washington Post

My retired mom and I go to lunch weekly (she picks me up from work). I guess I never noticed until now, but she talks on the phone a lot while driving, which…

After losing daughter, dad vows to change culture

Date2012-10-11

Category Drunk Driving

Source CNN

Leo McCarthy gives college scholarships to teenagers who pledge not to drink while they’re underage. In 2007, McCarthy lost his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, when an underage drunken driver hit her and two of her…

CDC: Teen Drinking and Driving Falls by Half

Date2012-10-03

Category Drunk Driving

Source TIME

The number of teens who drive after drinking has dropped by more than half — 54%…

Woman believed to be texting during fatal car crash

Date2012-01-27

Category Distracted Driving

Source abc Local

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — A woman was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence Thursday after colliding with a driver on the 405 Freeway last April.