Data Indicates Distracted Driving Accidents on the Rise

It is imperative that anyone operating a motor vehicle pay attention to the road and their surroundings. Distracted driving can result in accidents that may leave victims with serious injuries or even claim their lives. Unfortunately, distracted driving remains a significant cause of motor vehicle accidents in the United States. Statistical analyses also indicate that […]

Miami Put it Down Campaign to Reduce Distracted Driving

Technology increases our ability to protect our privacy, speed up production, entertain, and drive our cars. Technology requires innovation and creativity. It also takes time. Just because the technology is out there doesn’t mean it will be accessible to everyone, unlike Cell phones, which are now an extension of our arms. We can’t go anywhere […]

Is Apple Responsible for FaceTime Distracted Driving Crashes?

It was Christmas eve as a family of four pulled up to a line of cars caught by a traffic jam. The father of that family slowed their car, but the vehicle directly behind them didn’t. A 20-year-old driver slammed his vehicle into this family’s car causing major injuries and one devastating loss. Now the […]

Distractions Spreading from the Car to the Operating Room

The next time you get in your car, consider that approximately 660,000 drivers are using their cell phones while driving at any given moment, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). The result is that distracted driving contributed to almost 10 percent of all car accident deaths last year. Cell phone distraction is showing no […]

Distracted Drivers Cause about 8,000 Car Accidents Every Day

You might have heard about the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) proposed ban on all cell phone use behind the wheel for all drivers in America. Some people have criticized the government for over-reaching, but the NTSB examined some crucial data before making its recommendation. The NTSB looked at a 2001 study that showed conversations […]

Texting While Driving is the Most Deadly of All Distracted Driving Activities

Distraction.gov is the U.S. Government’s official website for its crackdown on distracted driving. Federal safety experts recently revealed the most dangerous form of distracted driving. Can you take a guess? If you guessed distracted driving, you are correct. The reason, according to researchers, is that text messaging requires visual, manual and cognitive attention from the […]

Florida is Falling Behind on Distracted Driving Enforcement

We recently blogged about the proposed federal ban on cell phone use for all drivers in the United States by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Several states have already taken steps to ban cell phones behind the wheel in some form or another. Unfortunately, Florida is yet to ban cell phone use in any […]

Using a Cell Phone while Driving Equivalent to Driving Drunk

Drivers have busy lives, stressful jobs, children in the car, and paying attention to the road can become secondary. Despite many states passing laws limiting or banning certain activities while driving, 20 percent of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to the […]