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Vigilante Cyclist Rats Texting Drivers Out to the Police, Keeps Roads Safe
Vigilante Cyclist Rats Texting Drivers Out to the Police, Keeps Roads Safe

24 Jul 2020, 12:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Mike van Erp says he’s only doing his duty by reporting texting drivers because he wants to keep the roads safe and help drivers be better

 
Australia Deploys AI Cameras to Catch Texting Drivers
Australia Deploys AI Cameras to Catch Texting Drivers

24 Sep 2019, 11:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / New South Wales successfully tried out the program and will extend it to 45 units spread out across the state, most of them mobile

 
“Saved by the Bell” Fan Crashes Into Police Car While Searching for Fave Episode
“Saved by the Bell” Fan Crashes Into Police Car While Searching for Fave Episode

17 Jun 2019, 09:15 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Vermont man was so engrossed in his phone he didn’t even realize he sideswiped a police car and drove off. He was eventually caught and arrested

 
Driver Gets Ticket for Scratching His Face
Driver Gets Ticket for Scratching His Face

29 May 2019, 13:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Driver surnamed Liu was photographed scratching his face, received the ticket at home, informing him he’d been caught using his cellphone while driving

 
Man Proves he Got a Ticket For Distracted Driving For Eating a Hash Brown
Man Proves he Got a Ticket For Distracted Driving For Eating a Hash Brown

2 May 2019, 14:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jason Stiber from Connecticut spend 1 year and considerable money to fight a $300 ticket he got for allegedly using his phone while driving, won

 
Man Says Cops Mistook His McDonald’s Hash Brown For a Phone, Ticketed Him
Man Says Cops Mistook His McDonald’s Hash Brown For a Phone, Ticketed Him

1 Mar 2019, 14:21 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jason Stiber from Connecticut fought the ticket and lost, is now planning on making his case in court just to get the police to admit they were wrong

 
Big Brother Move: UK Legislators Want To Stop Drivers From Using Their Phones
Big Brother Move: UK Legislators Want To Stop Drivers From Using Their Phones

20 Dec 2016, 12:49 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Distracted driving has become such a severe problem that governments across the world are thinking about a way to stop a person's phone while they are driving

 
California Bans All Use of a Cell Phone at the Wheel Starting January 2017
California Bans All Use of a Cell Phone at the Wheel Starting January 2017

18 Dec 2016, 12:41 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The relationship between Californian drivers and their smart phones might cool down a little starting next year thanks to a new law passed by the Governor

 
You Can Text or You Can Drive, But You Can't Do Both. No, Not Even You
You Can Text or You Can Drive, But You Can't Do Both. No, Not Even You

4 Nov 2016, 20:07 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Until autonomous cars become the norm and you won't just be able to text in the car, but even take a nap, doing it while driving remains impossibly dangerous

 
Woman Filmed Texting at the Wheel by Motorcyclist Gets Three Charges
Woman Filmed Texting at the Wheel by Motorcyclist Gets Three Charges

5 Sep 2016, 10:01 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The woman caught texting at the wheel and filmed by the helmet cam of a motorcyclist has received three separate charges from the Canadian police

 
If I Could Just Have Your Attention for a Moment... No? OK
If I Could Just Have Your Attention for a Moment... No? OK

1 Sep 2016, 17:17 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A motorcycle rider just wants to have a talk with a driver who was on the phone, and it wasn't about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

 
Texting While Driving Is Preventing a Sixth Sense from Kicking In, Study Shows
Texting While Driving Is Preventing a Sixth Sense from Kicking In, Study Shows

16 May 2016, 15:53 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / It's no secret that texting at the wheel is a bad idea, but just saying “it takes your focus off the road” isn't enough to explain why that is, apparently

 
Mustang Shelby GT350 Reportedly Has First Customer Crash, Hit by Woman Texting in a Camry
Mustang Shelby GT350 Reportedly Has First Customer Crash, Hit by Woman Texting in a Camry

12 Dec 2015, 17:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Since we have no photographic evidence of the crash at the moment, we'll take this story with the mandatory grain of salt

 
Undercover Cop Hunts Drivers Using their Phones in Traffic, Kills them with Politeness
Undercover Cop Hunts Drivers Using their Phones in Traffic, Kills them with Politeness

5 May 2015, 13:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / One ingenious initiative had an undercover cop pulling over drivers in traffic that were using their phones while behind the wheel and this is what it was like

 
Adam Levine Stars in Nissan’s “Red Thumb Day” Texting Awareness Campaign
Adam Levine Stars in Nissan’s “Red Thumb Day” Texting Awareness Campaign

16 Dec 2014, 09:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / 1.6 million cars crash each year, accidents that cause a half-million injuries and take 6,000 lives annually, the U.S. Department of Transportation statistics show. In a trial to overcome this probl...

 
SafeDrive Rewards Those Who don’t Touch their Phone While Driving
SafeDrive Rewards Those Who don’t Touch their Phone While Driving

5 Nov 2014, 17:14 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Each day in the United States alone more than 9 people are killed and around 1,153 are injured in crashes that involve a distracted driver. Even though it’s dangerous, it seems more and more p...

 
Arab Drifting Now Replaced with Extreme Texting
Arab Drifting Now Replaced with Extreme Texting

13 Jun 2013, 09:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We haven’t heard too much from the guys doing Arab Drifting lately, so we figured that this ridiculous activity that’s actually called Hagwalah had gone out of fashion. Alas, it seem...

 
US Youths Still Text While Driving Despite Knowing the Risks
US Youths Still Text While Driving Despite Knowing the Risks

10 May 2012, 12:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the general consensus being that doing, really, anything other than holding the wheel, while driving is bad, especially actions involving taking one’s eyes off the road. As a recent su...

 
Texting While Driving? Think again!
Texting While Driving? Think again!

1 May 2012, 11:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The mobile phone is now omnipresent in our daily lives, and if we could and wanted to, we would attach it to our body and become 'phone-borgs'. At least we’d save ourselves the troub...

 
NTSB Recommends Complete Ban on Electronic Devices While Driving
NTSB Recommends Complete Ban on Electronic Devices While Driving

14 Dec 2011, 10:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We saw this day coming when we announced some figures showing that last year a total of 3,092 people died in the US as a direct result of texting or talking on the phone while behind the wheel of a ...