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According to this statistic, 32.8 % of high school students admitted to having texted or sent an email while driving, and 12 % of all distracted drivers in fatal accidents in 2013 were teens.

424,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in 2013, which is an increase from 2012.

According to the Department of Transportation, 3,331 people died in motor vehicle accidents involving distracted drivers in 2011, up from 3,267 people in 2010.

Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that over 3,330 people in the United States were killed by distracted drivers in 2011 alone.

In 2009, 5,474 people were killed and 448,000 injured in crashes caused by distracted drivers in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880)-- Governor Andrew Cuomo is making a new push to increase fines and penalties against distracted drivers in New York state.

Distracted drivers in New York would be held accountable under a bipartisan bill proposed in Albany.

Recovered a seven - figure settlement for the family of a police officer who was killed by a distracted driver in Warsaw, Indiana.

If you have been in an accident, the cause was very likely to be a distracted driver in the other vehicle.

If you or someone close to you has been injured by a distracted driver in Dallas - Fort Worth, elsewhere in Texas or anywhere in the nation, the Glenn Law Firm is here to stand up for your rights.

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Every day, about 9 people are killed and more than 1,153 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver, according to the CDC.

Take the deadly Autopilot accident in March, when Autopilo steered an apparently distracted driver directly into a concrete divider.

Sure, it was probably a bit distracting with a GoPro in his face but drivers might as well get used to it if this halo concept becomes a thing.

If your child is uncomfortable and so fussy that he distracts the driver, it could make everyone in the car unsafe.

In a preliminary report, police indicated the driver, a 32 - year - old Arlington Heights woman driving a 2005 gray Mercedes sedan, was not texting or distracted as she exited the parking lot and struck the mother and daughter before noon March 15.

Targeted Efforts by Law Enforcement Leads to 35 % Increase in Tickets Tickets issued to motorists for texting while driving increased 35 percent statewide from 2013 to 2014, as police continue to crack down on distracted drivers.

In addition, the state conducted a summer crackdown on distracted drivers.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says with more and more young drivers hitting the roads each year, the problem of distracted driving in New York is getting worse.

«In addition to the DWI checkpoints and patrols, Troopers will also be watching for distracted or impaired drivers, vehicle occupants who are not properly buckled up, and drivers that are violating the Move Over Law.»

«From 2005 to 2011 [there was] a 143 % increase in the number of fatalities and injuries from distracted drivers,» Cuomo says.

I want people to live free from violence in their homes and to be protected from drunk and distracted drivers on the street.

According to the AAA of Western and Central New York, distracted driving occurs in 6 out of 10 deadly crashes involving teen drivers and 16 percent of all fatal crashes, leading to approximately 5,000 deaths every year.

«In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

That's why even drivers who accept in principle the risks of distracted driving often don't apply the lesson to themselves.

That same year, 3,331 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, and an additional 387,000 people were injured.

When a crash occurred, or drivers had a near miss, the researchers documented whether the drivers were engaged in a distracting activity.

Risks of distracted driving were greatest for newly licensed teen drivers, who were substantially more likely than adults to be involved in a crash or near miss while texting or engaging in tasks secondary to driving, according to the researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Virginia Tech.

When Lesley, the local school bus driver, (Tony nominee Amy Morton) becomes distracted during her end - of - day inspection, she fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus.

A teenage girl living in New York City, Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin), is witness to a bus accident when the bus driver (Mark Ruffalo), distracted by Lisa's frantic waving, runs a red light.

A distracted driver is involved in a car accident.

Like a distracted driver constantly missing his highway exit, Collide keeps passing on opportunities for action in favor of patience - straining exposition.

I then mentioned that I had seen Johnny behaving appropriately in his classroom, and explained to the driver how the teacher used seating chart to assign seats based on where students would be the least distracted and distracting.

Unsurprisingly, the novice drivers were much more likely to become distracted by use of mobile phones in the car, on average three to five times more likely to be involved in a crash or near - crash through dialing or reaching for a phone.

In fact, anything that stands out is a good thing, especially during this epoch of the highly distracted driver.

As a driver who regularly utilizes the latest technology in modern cars, what has helped me enormously is configuring the car's infotainment setup before putting the car in motion as adjusting settings on a car's touchscreen while driving can be as distracting as using a smartphone.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

The Twitter Feed: Safety in the cell - phone era: Volvo's Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake keeps distracted drivers from mowing down clueless walkers.

In kicking off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit this morning, Secretary LaHood announced that he is initiating a new rulemaking to prohibit commercial truck drivers from texting while transporting hazardous materials.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The University of Michigan's $ 10 million, 32 - acre «outdoor lab,» Mcity, is designed as a place where automakers and suppliers test semi-automated, autonomous, and connected - car systems, with railroad crossings, roundabouts, paved and unpaved roads, potentially potholes, snow and ice in the winter and, presumably, no distracted drivers to rear - end the autonomous cars.

Importantly, devices that have the potential to distract the driver are included in the safety - relevant category.

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«These guidelines are a major step forward in identifying real solutions to tackle the issue of distracted driving for drivers of all ages.»

Currently under way in Hartford, Connecticut and Syracuse, New York, the program tests whether increased law enforcement efforts and public service announcements can get distracted drivers to put down their cell phones and focus on the road.

Joel & Dianne Feldman — Springfield, Pennsylvania WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPrZCCjrFLs On July 17, 2009, 21 - year - old Casey Feldman was struck and killed by a distracted driver as she crossed the street in Ocean City, New Jersey.

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In theory, drivers of manual transmissions spend more time shifting and therefore have little time to get distracted using the increased technology many newer cars come equipped with.

The fact that it's so far out of reach means that drivers will have to learn where those additional buttons surrounding the iDrive controller are and what they do, because at night or even in the daytime it's just too distracting to tilt your head and peer down there, as is searching for a cell phone that you've dropped under your seat.

On the inside, I liked that there's not a whole lot of clutter to distract the driver, giving it that feeling of a real driver's car and thanks in part to the retractable infotainment screen.

Since we can not use telemetry in GT2, we are working on our dashboard alarms to alert the driver when there is a problem without distracting him when operating conditions are normal during a race.»