All the headlines from our Distracted Driving Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold a cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
Jun 19 2006 // New York’s cell phone ban could clear the way for laws against anything that causes accidents, from having a pet in the car to drinking coffee, warns a lawyer fighting to have the ban declared...
Jun 19 2006 // Despite understanding risk, drivers gab away on cell phonesDespite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous, and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold the cell phone, a...
Jun 7 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous, and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold the cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
May 1 2006 // The Virginia Department of Transportation, Drive Smart Virginia and GEICO are partnering to take action to help “reduce the use” of cell phones and other driver distractions by creating the first annual...
Nov 22 2005 // Whether by intelligent design or natural selection, men – at least most men – are programmed to look at women. This assures increased species propagation and the ultimate survival of the human race.Quite...
Sep 5 2005 // Drivers who are mentally or physically distracted react more slowly to traffic conditions and significantly reduce their “margin of safety” leading them to take risks.Consider this scenario: Your employee is...
Sep 5 2005 // When an employee crashes, so does the bottom line. In many cases, it is employers who bear the human, economic, and legal costs associated with a crash.Consider the following scenario: Your employee is driving down the...
Sep 5 2005 // Consider the following scenario: Your employee is driving down the road talking on her cell phone to a client. Distracted by the conversation, your employee swerves and hits what she believes to be a deer. Your employee...
Aug 22 2005 // Drivers who are mentally or physically distracted react more slowly to traffic conditions and significantly reduce their “margin of safety” leading them to take risks.Consider this scenario: Your employee is...
Aug 8 2005 // Common sense as well as experience suggest that handling and dialing cell phones while driving compromise safety, and evidence is accumulating that phone conversations also increase crash risk.New research from the...
Jul 12 2005 // Common sense as well as experience tell us that handling and dialing cell phones while driving compromise safety, and evidence is accumulating that phone conversations also increase crash risk.New research from the...
Jun 7 2005 // Connecticut would become the third state to prohibit drivers from using hand-held phones, under a bill that has been given final legislative approval by the state Senate.The Senate voted 32-4 in favor of the ban and sent...
May 23 2005 // According to PEMCO’s 2005 Northwest Insurance Poll, four out of five Washington drivers believe that talking on cell phones while driving should be legal only with hands-free devices, or made illegal altogether, but...
May 3 2005 // According to PEMCO’s 2005 Northwest Insurance Poll, four out of five Washington drivers believe that talking on cell phones while driving should be legal only with hands-free devices, or made illegal altogether, but...
Jan 30 2005 // A bill that bans Virginia motorists younger than 18 from talking on cellular phones while driving and subjects them to tickets if they don’t wear seat belts won easy Senate passage last week.By a 32-7 vote, a bill...
Sep 20 2004 // High school and middle school students overwhelmingly say their parents are or will be the biggest influence on how they drive, but the practices many teens say they are emulating represent some of the most risky driving...
Jul 19 2004 // New Jersey’s ban on cell phone use by drivers went into full effect on July 1, but police still can’t pull somebody over simply for chattering away while going down the road. Motorists talking on hand-held cell...
Jun 28 2004 // New Jersey’s ban on cell phone use by drivers goes into full effect on July 1, but police still can’t pull somebody over simply for chattering away while going down the road.Motorists talking on hand-held cell...
Jun 7 2004 // They may not think it’s safe, but most Washington drivers admit to keeping one eye and one hand on a meal while driving, according to a recently released PEMCO Insurance poll on driver distraction.Eating a meal...