Study: Distracting Roadside Safety Billboards May Cause 17K Crashes A Year
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Such signs are provoking a conversation among advocates about the limits of on-road safety messages more broadly.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Distracted Driving
Three-Quarters of Licensed Drivers Used a Mobile Device While Driving, New Survey Finds
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Thank goodness April is "Distracted Driving Month."
St. Louis Lawmakers Refuse to Ban Legislating While Driving … While Driving
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St. Louis's controversial decision to vote down a resolution that would have banned legislators from voting over Zoom while driving is sparking a heated conversation about distracted driving, and how little America does to stop it.
BAD TO WORSE: Study Explains Why Road Violence Increased During the Pandemic
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Bad drivers got worse ... and drove more.
Can Passengers Help End Dangerous Driving? (And Should They?)
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A new safety campaign will aim to empower passengers to take action when the drivers of the car they're riding in are drunk, drugged or distracted behind the wheel. But is that the best method?
These States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws
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More than 40 states have failed to adopted a series of common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn't bode well for those states' potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.