Latest Distracted Driving Headlines
All the headlines from our Distracted Driving Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Distracted Driving: Is Your Organization Steering Clear of Liability Risks?
Sep 5 2005 // Drivers who are mentally or physically distracted react more slowly to traffic conditions and significantly reduce their “margin of safety” leading them to take risks. Consider this scenario: Your employee is...
Distracted Driving: Steering Clear of Liability Risks
Sep 5 2005 // When an employee crashes, so does the bottom line. In many cases, it is employers who bear the human, economic, and legal costs associated with a crash. Consider the following scenario: Your employee is driving down the...
Distracted Driving: Steering Clear of Liability Risks
Sep 5 2005 // Consider the following scenario: Your employee is driving down the road talking on her cell phone to a client. Distracted by the conversation, your employee swerves and hits what she believes to be a deer. Your employee...
Distracted Driving: Is Your Organization Steering Clear of Liability Risks?
Aug 22 2005 // Drivers who are mentally or physically distracted react more slowly to traffic conditions and significantly reduce their “margin of safety” leading them to take risks. Consider this scenario: Your employee is...
Crash Risk is Four Times Higher When Drivers Use Cell Phones, Study Says
Aug 8 2005 // Common sense as well as experience suggest that handling and dialing cell phones while driving compromise safety, and evidence is accumulating that phone conversations also increase crash risk. New research from the...
Crash Risk is Four Times Higher When Drivers Use Cell Phones, Study Says
Jul 12 2005 // Common sense as well as experience tell us that handling and dialing cell phones while driving compromise safety, and evidence is accumulating that phone conversations also increase crash risk. New research from the...
Bill to Curb Conn. Drivers’ Cell Phone Use on Gov. Rell’s Desk
Jun 7 2005 // Connecticut would become the third state to prohibit drivers from using hand-held phones, under a bill that has been given final legislative approval by the state Senate. The Senate voted 32-4 in favor of the ban and sent...
PEMCO’s Northwest Insurance Poll Notes Trends in Cell Phone Usage
May 23 2005 // According to PEMCO’s 2005 Northwest Insurance Poll, four out of five Washington drivers believe that talking on cell phones while driving should be legal only with hands-free devices, or made illegal altogether, but...
Majority of Washingtonians Want Changes in Cell Phone Laws
May 3 2005 // According to PEMCO’s 2005 Northwest Insurance Poll, four out of five Washington drivers believe that talking on cell phones while driving should be legal only with hands-free devices, or made illegal altogether, but...
Virginia Senate Gets Tough on Teen Drivers, Passing Cell Phone Ban, Seat Belt and Curfew Bills
Jan 30 2005 // A bill that bans Virginia motorists younger than 18 from talking on cellular phones while driving and subjects them to tickets if they don’t wear seat belts won easy Senate passage last week. By a 32-7 vote, a bill...
Teens Follow Lead of Parents in Driving Habits
Sep 20 2004 // High school and middle school students overwhelmingly say their parents are or will be the biggest influence on how they drive, but the practices many teens say they are emulating represent some of the most risky driving...
N.J. FINES DRIVERS ON CELL PHONES:
Jul 19 2004 // New Jersey’s ban on cell phone use by drivers went into full effect on July 1, but police still can’t pull somebody over simply for chattering away while going down the road. Motorists talking on hand-held cell...
N.J. to Fine Drivers Using Cell Phones Starting July 1
Jun 28 2004 // New Jersey’s ban on cell phone use by drivers goes into full effect on July 1, but police still can’t pull somebody over simply for chattering away while going down the road. Motorists talking on hand-held cell...
PEMCO Releases List of Top Distracting Activities for Washington Drivers
Jun 7 2004 // They may not think it’s safe, but most Washington drivers admit to keeping one eye and one hand on a meal while driving, according to a recently released PEMCO Insurance poll on driver distraction. Eating a meal...
PEMCO Releases List of Top Distracting Activities for Washington Drivers
May 10 2004 // They may not think it’s safe, but most Washington drivers admit to keeping one eye and one hand on a meal while driving, according to a PEMCO Insurance poll on driver distraction released today. Eating a meal turned...
Michigan AAA Warns on Distracted Driving
Dec 3 2002 // Michigan’s AAA organization took issue with a just released study by Harvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis, that seemed to imply there were some benefits to be derived from the use of cell phones. Not...
NY Assembly Votes To Ban Driver Cell Phone Use
Jun 26 2001 // By a vote of 125 to 19 the New York State Assembly followed the lead of the Senate, and passed a bill banning the use of cell phones by automobile drivers. Governor Pataki is expected to sign the bill next week. It would...
