Distracted driving must be treated ‘with the same kind of criminality and public condemnation as impaired driving:’ Op/Ed
It’s time we started treating distracted driving like impaired driving
— Toronto Star, February 5, 2020
Tag: Road Deaths
Focus of improvements in annual report card on US states’ road safety policies: Occupant safety and children; young drivers and licensing; and preventing impaired and distracted drivers
Report Card for the States Rates Those with Best and Worst Laws to Cut Traffic Deaths
— FairWarning, January 29, 2020
NSW officials are zeroed in on how Oslo has advanced efforts to achieve road safety goals as they prevent deaths and injuries
Oslo cut road deaths to one in 2019. Can Sydney do the same?
— The Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 2020
Despite NTSB’s safety concerns, Fed’s position stays in backseat, sticks with ‘private sector leadership’ as plan for regulating US driverless tech-development
New US plan keeps autonomous vehicle standards voluntary
— Associated Press, January 8, 2020
Distraction was biggest killer (again) on New Jersey roads in 2018 — driver’s cellphone-use caused the most crashes
Making a call, texting, and drinking coffee killed the most drivers last year in N.J.
— N.J.com, December 28, 2019
Over first week of use, mobile phone-detecting cameras in NSW nab 3300 drivers for violating handheld ban
New NSW mobile detection cameras catch thousands in first week
— The Sydney Morning Herald, December 17, 2019
App’s data shows hands-free ‘laws are having an effect but they aren’t in enough states to affect the overall levels dramatically’: Research
Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying.
— Bloomberg, December 5, 2019
New Jersey jury finds driver guilty in crash that killed pedestrian — trial is first application of vehicular manslaughter-charges for distracted driving
She Texted About Dinner While Driving. Then a Pedestrian Was Dead.
— The New York Times, November 22, 2019