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Distracted Driving * USA - NY next state to ban texting
Albany,NY,USA -Today's Trucking -8 Sept 2009: -- New York State's law banning the use of handheld devices for reading, typing and sending text messages while driving has been passed... Effective Nov. 1, the new law makes New York the 18th state to enact such anti-texting legislation... Text messaging while driving is already banned in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia. Other states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Oregon, have similar legislation in place go into effect Jan. 1, 2010...
* USA - Course offered. “Distracted driving is a growing and urgent public issue”
Trevose,PA,USA -The Trucker News Services -8 Sept 2009: -- The dangers and causes of distracted driving and ways to avoid it are the subject of a new DriverCare Web-Based Training lesson, the CEI Group (CEI) has announced... Aimed at fleet and private drivers of all ages and all types of vehicles, the narrated lesson explains that:• Any driver who takes his or her eyes off the road for more than two seconds for any reason is distracted.
• Drivers engage in a potentially distracting behavior approximately 30 percent of the time their vehicles are in motion.
• Because they are mentally distracted, even with their eyes on the road drivers talking on a cell phone pose a greater risk than a driver with a blood alcohol reading of 0.08, considered legally drunk.
• Distracted driving is different from impaired driving due to fatigue or the use of alcohol, and can be controlled by a commitment to full concentration on the primary task of driving... (Photo “Distracted driving is a growing and urgent public issue,” Ryan Woolfender, senior manager of business development at CEI, said)
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