A 19 year-old girl from Brooklyn, who was involved in a car accident because she was allegedly texting while driving, is now being charged of negligent homicide and may face up to 4 years in jail because of her driving distraction. 
According to the police report, the teen driver, who was driving a Toyota Camry, hit [...]

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 [...]

3 months after the state banned texting while driving, police in Iowa are using an innovative way to educate people on the dangers of distracted driving. 
 As part of a statewide campaign, police officers are handing out warnings accompanied with colorful bands to wear on your thumbs that say: “TXTNG KILLS”. 
 For Courtney Greene, spokeswoman at Iowa’s [...]

A distracted driving bill is scheduled to be studied this fall in Alberta, but in the meantime, a Calgary judge found a way to punish a young man for texting while driving. 
Provincial court Judge Les Grieve lectured handed the 21-year-old man the maximum $2,000 fine for careless driving under the current Traffic Safety Act.   On [...]

Lawmakers in Florida may not have agreed on a bill to ban texting while driving in the last Legislative session, but the Florida Highway Patrol will take the matter in its own hand. 
In association with Verizon Wireless, the Florida Highway Patrol announced the launch of the “Danger Thumbs” campaign to make the state’s roads safer [...]

The parents of Jewell Miller, a young lady who died hours after her high school graduation in a car crashed caused by texting while driving, are hoping that their daughter’s death will help avoid others.   
Roselyn Miller and her husband are displaying their daughter’s car across Richmond County School, so that teen drivers understand the dangers [...]

It is a known fact that the majority of teen drivers are texting while driving their vehicle.  But some young drivers in Georgia are willing to prove the statistics wrong.
Since the new law took effect in Georgia on July 1, drivers under the age of 18 or with a provisional license are prohibited from using [...]

This week, a major boys band and a star of the hit TV show Glee have endorsed different causes that all lead to the same objective: stop teens from texting while driving. 
The Jonas Brothers have teamed up with Allstate Insurance to raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving and to encourage young people [...]