UK road safety collaboration delivers ‘Honest Truth’ with batty billboard
Warwickshire road safety campaign launched in Leamington to warn people of the dangers of using mobile phones while driving
— Kenilworth Weekly Times, January 31, 2020
Tag: England
Hands-free or not, phone calls pull attention away from driver’s brain — ‘you tend to create pictures in your head’ when no one else is in the car: Research
This is why using a hands-free phone while driving is also dangerous
— WalesOnline, August 13, 2019
Attention needed — UK Parliament transport committee’s report on ‘driving while using a mobile phone’ identifies key issues
Ban hands-free phones in cars after rise in road deaths, MPs suggest
— The Guardian, August 13, 2019
Texting distracted driver gets six years jail-time in England — crash killed two of three pedestrians struck
Texting driver who killed woman and girl is jailed
— Lancashire Telegraph, August 7, 2018
Lack of enforcement reason for big dip in cited distracted driving offenses in England and Wales, not behavior-change
Depleted police forces ‘failing to curb use of phones by drivers’
— The Guardian, October 27, 2016