
HANDS-FREE MOBILE USE WHILE DRIVING IS JUST AS DANGEROUS
The latest data available in New Jersey is from 2006 to 2008, which shows that about 5,500 people were involved in crashes while driving and using handheld mobile phones.
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The latest data available in New Jersey is from 2006 to 2008, which shows that about 5,500 people were involved in crashes while driving and using handheld mobile phones.

Based on these results, it is crystal clear that those who try to minimize this dangerous behavior are making a serious error in judgment, especially when half a million people are injured and thousands more are killed in distracted driving accidents

A study being conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on the safety and economic impact of truck speed limiters will be reviewed before a change is finalized.

The SAE estimates that the failure to properly use turn signals – whether when switching lanes or making a turn – causes approximately two million car accidents in the United States each year.

Research from the Center for Disease Control supports the fact that sobriety checkpoints do reduce drunk-driving accidents by about 20 percent, according to a 2002 study.

The claim alleges that the guardrail originally installed by engineers was removed because cars were hitting it.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that these programs may not be as effective as anticipated.

Residents of California may want to think twice before using their phone…

It is not clear what caused the collisions to occur.

Teens who are a bit older are more likely to participate in the behavior than those who are just learning to drive.

The truck rear-ended the car with sufficient force to send it into the northbound lane where it collided with a Freightliner truck hauling two trailers.

Though the driver of the vehicle is still in the hospital it is likely that at a minimum he will be charged with manslaughter.