Since Alberta adopted its new distracted driving law, New Brunswick was the last Canadian province where texting while driving was allowed.  That will change soon.
Public Safety Minister Robert Trevors announced last week that the Conservative government will amend the Motor Vehicle Act in order to fight driving distractions such as texting while driving.
Under the proposed [...]

Florida has not been able to come up with a texting ban in the last few years.  But the Walt Disney Corporation is making a move before the state legislature does. 
A new rule bans all 60,000 Disney employees from texting while driving on the job. The ban also prohibits employees from making or receiving phone [...]

The AAA Hoosier Motor Club wants drivers in Indiana to understand the dangers of texting while driving.  That’s why the organization is rallying with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, State Farm Insurance, Hendricks County Purdue extension and the Indiana Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) in a public campaign of the DUI of the new millennium. 
Since [...]

Alberta Transportation Minister Luke Ouellette made a promise over the summer: that his government would come up with the toughest law on distracted driving.  On November 17, the promise turned into reality as the Alberta legislature approved a new bill that will ban distractions such as texting while driving.
Under the new the Traffic Safety Amendment [...]

One would think that the person driving your kids to school puts their safety at the top of their list.  Seems one employee of the Rockingham County Schools put her personal interest before the children’s need.
A full-time employee working as a bus driver for Draper Elementary School, in North Carolina, was removed from her duties [...]

Texting while driving has been a hot issue in 2010 and the latest telephone poll shows so.
A new Ramussen Report national telephone survey reveals that 94% of the people surveyed think that texting while driving should be banned.  Still, there are some people who don’t think that the law should apply to individual rights.  Just [...]

Since the beginning of the year, at least 178 train operators and bus drivers for the MTA  NYC Transit have been caught texting while driving on the job.  This time, the dangerous behavior was caught on video.
At about 8:45 on a Friday morning, a 7 train operator was seen using his cell phone and not [...]

An 18-year-old teen from Knox County, Ohio involved in a car crash last July may be incarcerated for up to 5 years and get up to $15,000 in fines because she is suspected of texting while driving.
On August 4, it is believed that the young girl was texting while driving when she crashed into another [...]

Who said teenagers aren’t involved in politics?  Thanks to the efforts of a 15-year-old girl, the city on Daphne, Alabama will become the latest municipality in the state to ban texting while driving.
Over the summer, Jasmine Lee, a 15-year-old Bayside Academy student, became Alabama Junior Teen Queen.  In August, she spoke before the city’s Public [...]

After Universal City, Selma, and San Antonio, Converse becomes the latest Texas city to ban texting while driving. 
The Converse City Council recently passed an ordinance to prohibit drivers from reading and sending text messages as well as browsing the Internet while driving.  Voted unanimously by all 7 council members, the ordinance will become effective on [...]