April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month — a good time to be mindful about potential hazards on the road. Laura Adams, senior analyst with Aceable, an Austin, Texas-based driver education company, ...

Actions that take your eyes, hands, or mind off driving are called distractions. These brief lapses often lead to crashes that could have been avoided. Ever ...

Early, targeted intervention as teens learn to drive can curb risk taking before it becomes normalizedEdina, ...

Distracted driving is a pressing issue, with activities like texting and eating contributing significantly to road accidents. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than ...

Traffic can change in a second. A glance at a phone or a sip of coffee breaks your focus long enough to miss a stoplight or a merging car. Most drivers think they can multitask, but that illusion ends ...

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month In 2022, 3,308 people were killed and 289,310 people were injured in U.S. traffic crashes involving a distracted driver AAA research has found that ...

It's not just a smartphone problem. Distracted driving has been making highways more dangerous since the advent of the automobile -- but smartphones have worsened the issue and, more recently, forced ...

In a recent study by the Governors Highway Safety Association, driving distractions such as cell phones and other electronic devices, cause as much as 25% of all US car accidents. It is common ...

Researchers in the UAB Department of Pediatrics found that Alabama parents living in suburban areas use cellphones in the speaker mode, read and send text messages, and surf the web slightly more ...

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Effective Jan. 1, Colorado will become the 29th state to ban hand-held mobile devices while driving. The new law expands Colorado's current ban of using cellphones to text while driving. The new law ...