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Wisconsin student arrested, fined for repeated texting »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
So how did text messaging by a 14-year-old girl escalate to her getting arrested in school?
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Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash »
Posted by: monte-g 1 year, 2 months ago in News
Authorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. Kayla ...
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91% Of U.S. Supports Ban on Texting While Driving »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 month ago in News
In a new survey, 91 percent of American adults support a ban on texting while driving. Only 6 percent think texting behind the wheel is ...
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Americans Still Love Texting While Driving »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The good news is that the percentage of drivers surveyed in this report who admit to texting (or emailing) while driving has dropped since last ...
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Wife Swap wants text obsessed family »
Posted by: jwag57 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
ABC’s primetime series “Wife Swap” is looking for the ultimate text obsessed family who cannot eat, sleep, or breathe without their phones!
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New U.K. "Texting While Driving" PSA is Disturbing, Pulls No Punches »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new "texting while driving" PSA (public service announcement) from the U.K. pulls no punches. It also makes no attempt to hide the graphic ...
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Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum »
Posted by: engineer 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The secretary of transportation on Tuesday announced a plan for a 'distracted driving summit,' an action that safety advocates say is a shift in the ...
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When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison »
Posted by: engineer 1 week, 3 days ago in News
Although most European countries and a minority of American states now ban the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, Britain has become one of the ...
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In Study, Texting Lifts Crash Risk by Large Margin »
Posted by: engineer 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the ...
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Example 8,234,001 of Why Texting While Driving is Bad; Bus Crash »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
If you need any proof that while some states have such laws, we should probably have a federal law against text messaging while driving (or ...
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The Sexting Phenomenomn and Teen Safety »
Posted by: jwag57 5 months ago in Family
During the past six months or so, the word Sexting has became part of our daily language. The media use it constantly. Even parents that ...
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AT&T May Have "American Idol" Results: Report »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Oof. Many have wondered just how Kris Allen (pictured) won American Idol last week, as Adam Lambert had been the favorite for much the season ...
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Surprise: Texting While Driving is Dangerous - PC World »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Shocking but true - another new study concludes that driving while texting on a cell phone or smartphone isn't safe - in fact, it can be ...
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MBTA Fires Texting Trolley Operator »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 6 months ago in News
Aiden Quinn, the 24-year-old trolley operator who rear-ended another trolley while texting his girlfriend, has been fired. The crash injured 49 people.
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Tow Truck Driver Ends Up in Pool While Talking, Texting on Two Cell Phones »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 1 week ago in News
While pundits continue to argue about text messaging while driving, and studies continue to show the dangers of combining the activities, all one really has ...
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