Usually, teen drivers are seen as the population more prone to texting while driving.  Various factors, such as inexperience and technologies, weight against them.  But in North Carolina, it appears that teen drivers aren’t the only ones texting while driving; adults are just as bad. 
Off the 1259 citations handed out since the law went into [...]

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 [...]

According to auto club AAA, texting while driving is getting worse on California’s roads.
In their most recent study, AAA compared 7 locations in Southern California before and after the law went into effect.  Of the 4,000 Orange County cars sampled, it was found that 2.7% of all drivers are texting while driving.  That’s almost twice [...]

There are a number of driving distractions: eating, talking on a cell phone, texting…  But driving with your dog in the car puts you at the same risk as texting while driving.
According to a new survey from American Automobile Association (AAA), traveling with your pet in your car ranks 3rd in a list of driving [...]

Young drivers are fully aware of the dangers of texting while driving, yet according to a new survey from Seventeen magazine and auto club AAA, it doesn’t stop them from doing it. 
A recent online survey found that while 84% of teens are conscious of the risks they take with being distracted while driving, 86% engage [...]

A recent survey from the Automobile Club of Southern California seems to show that 15 months after the state banned texting while driving, things are right back where they started.
In 2008, three Auto Club surveys showed that approximately 1.4% of motorists were texting while driving.  After California’s texting ban took effect in January 2009, two different [...]

The Texas Department of Transportation has released the number of car crashes related to a hand-held cell phone, and it isn’t a pretty picture.
Since 2005, over 1,700 drivers were involved in a car crash while using their cell phone.  In 2009, they were responsible for almost 700 crashes.  Four of them were deadly.
According to Dan [...]

The American Automobile Association is on a mission to put a nation-wide ban on texting while driving in the next 3 years.
Citing a 2008 study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association reporting that car accidents caused by drivers who were using their cellphone while driving accounted for 5,870 fatalities and 515,000 injuries nationwide, AAA [...]