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Lowell high school students participated in and watched a simulated impaired driving crash, learning the severity of driving while distracted. Every 15 Minutes: Students confront the risks of ...
Support for National Teen Driver Safety Week has grown, and the media coverage for this initiative has been overwhelming. Celebrities, including singer/songwriter Jesse McCartney, racecar driver Zach Veach and television personality Oprah Winfrey, [7] have formally endorsed the week, and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood [8] acknowledged distracted driving as an epidemic, calling for ...
U.S. DOT initiative on distracted driving: Former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has made prevention of distracted driving a policy priority within the Department. National summits on the topic were held in 2009 and 2010, the second of which emphasized the role of employer policies in reducing distraction-related crashes.
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
Driver distraction, a sub-category of inattention, has been estimated to be a contributing factor in 8% to 13% of all crashes. Of distraction-related crashes, cell phone use may range from 1.5 to 5% of contributing factors. [14] However, large unknowns in each category may increase the inaccuracy of these estimates.
In low-income communities where students are more likely to own only a smartphone and not a tablet or a laptop, banning devices will only further existing inequities in student achievement, she said.
Students are required to honor the request of classroom teachers and school staff to remove such a device from their person to prevent distractions or to prevent potential academic dishonesty in ...
Illegal to use most electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle $200 for a first offense The State of Hawaii does not use a point system, so texting while driving violations will not access any points assessed on a driver's license, and because this penalty is not deemed to be a traffic infraction, it has no effect on one's driving record.