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Thus, Connecticut bans teen drivers from using a cell phone or text messaging while driving.

If you like to text your friends, be warned: in 2008 Alaska instituted a ban on text messaging while driving.

Delaware law prohibits teen drivers from using a cell phone or text messaging while driving.

Avoid using your cell phone or text messaging while driving.

Thirty - nine states, including Indiana, and the District of Columbia prohibit text messaging while driving.

When drivers engage in cell phone calls or text messaging while driving, they divert their attention away from what should be their sole responsibility at that time: driving safely and avoiding pedestrians and other vehicles.

In October, 2013, Florida enacted a limited ban on text messaging while driving.

In fact, text messaging while driving creates a crash risk that is twenty - three times worse than driving while not distracted.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a regulation banning text messaging while operating a commercial motor vehicle in September 2010.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) also issued a final rule banning text messaging while operating a commercial motor vehicle.

Recipients must comply with these conditions under Executive Order 13513, «Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging while Driving,» October 1, 2009.

The news media carried some stories on the investigation, including the fact that the driver's cell phone had sent and received text messages while the driver was passing a truck seconds before the accident occurred.

Unfortunately, some studies show cellphone restrictions may actually increase the chances that a teen will attempt to send text messages while behind the wheel.

Safely Go keeps your eyes on the road, and your hands on the steering wheel by handling your calls and text messages while you drive.

Some people will opt for a text message while others will send information on social media websites, such as Facebook.

Unfortunately, many teens get into fatal car accidents because they were replying to a text message while driving.

The «It Can Wait» website also has a simulator that syncs with your smartphone and asks to respond to a text message while driving virtually.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin state Assembly is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a bill that would ban sending text messages while driving.

Sure you got genes from folks further on down the line, and you live in a polluted environment, and the bozo in the lane next to you on the beltway might decide to add an extra line to his text message while he drifts into your lane.

Probably because you hardly break a sweat, feel no pain, and you're able to read the latest Gossip Magazine or text message while you're at it.

I received this text message while they were gone!

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Three power outlets are added and a new feature in Sync3 infotainment system allows you to read text messages while driving.

Most rescue groups are staffed with unpaid volunteers who stay connected through Facebook, email and text messages while fostering and finding homes for 35 to 50 pets a month.

When we're checking text messages while ostensibly doing something actually important — well, you know what that means about your priorities.

In the New Jersey lawsuit, the Kuberts are now suing the driver who hit them as well as his girlfriend, who had been sending him text messages while he was driving.

«Motorists who write text messages while driving are six times more likely to crash than those who don't text while driving...» Click here for more information about the study.

3 % of the millennials typed or sent a text message while driving.

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Senate that if passed, would make it illegal to read, write or send a text message while driving any moving vehicle.

I'd have thought such a law would make the judge's decision easy: the driver would have broken the law by simply reading his text messages while driving.

For example, if a driver fails to follow the speed limit or sends text messages while driving and causes a car accident, he or she may be held financially liable in court for any injuries sustained by other drivers or pedestrians.

Moreover, 91 percent of those surveyed said the same about reading text messages while driving.

However, despite knowing the dangers of texting while driving, 45 percent of those surveyed said that they regularly read text messages while behind the wheel.

The Colorado distracted driving law, which went into effect in 2009, prohibits drivers under the age of 18 from using cellphones to talk or text while behind the wheel, and also bars adults from using handheld devices to send or receive text messages while driving.

Over the last few years, the New Orleans area has seen a number of terrible auto accidents involving drivers who were sending text messages while driving.

Recently a man received a ticket for distracted driving for answering a text message while waiting in line at a Beaumont area Tim Horton's drive through.

But phone calls aren't the big problem for me at night; where I find this feature most useful is for silencing emails, poorly timed reminders, and text messages while I'm in that all important fuzzy period right before drifting off to sleep.

When people send text messages while driving, they are putting themselves in danger in the following three ways:

On Friday June 17th 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed a law that passed the state legislature that would have made reading or sending text messages while driving illegal statewide.

The interview, which was part of a story aired by the KXAS News, the NBC affiliate in Dallas - Fort Worth, was prompted by last Thursday's report released by the Center for Disease Control stating that nearly 60 % of teen drivers read and send text messages while driving.

Also, Mississippi teen drivers are prohibited from using a cell phone to receive or send text messages while driving.

Currently, Mississippi teen drivers are prohibited from using cell phones to text message while driving.

Currently, Missouri teen drivers are prohibited from using cell phones to text message while driving.

All passengers must wear seat belts No using a cell phone to text message while driving No driving unsupervised between 10PM and 6AM (Sunday through Thursday) No driving unsupervised between 11:30 AM and 6AM (Friday and Saturday) The exception is if you are driving to or from work

Statistics have shown that around 50 % of drivers who are in the 18 to 24 age group are engaged in texting messages while driving.

Presently, 25 states have imposed complete or partial bans on texting messages while operating a vehicle.

As per available statistics at least 50 % of all motorists in the 18 to 24 age group admit to texting messages while they are behind the wheel.

For example, if a user gets a text message while looking at pictures, the user can simply swipe down and respond rather than have to leave the current picture app for the iMessage app.