Tag: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Apparently, Boston drivers just don't get it. Last week, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley driver was fired for texting his way into an accident with another trolley, injuring 50 people. Now, the Boston Herald is reporting on another similar firing -- this time, a suburban Boston school bus driver was caught texting (with both hands off the wheel) by a camera-phone wielding ...

Dialing while driving can sure ruin your day in a hurry. Over the weekend, a Boston trolley driver slammed his passenger-loaded trolley into another, injuring 50 people because he was distracted by text messaging his girlfriend. Just last month, a texting driver veered off of Idaho's Interstate 84 straight into a parked police cruiser. In March, a California driver dunked her car into the ...

We've seen people caught texting while driving cars, buses, motorcycles, and trains. We can now add to that list: texting in a trolley. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced over the weekend that a 24-year-old Boston trolley operator admitted to texting his girlfriend just before the trolley he was piloting slammed into another, injuring about 50 people, on Friday, May 8. ...

Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> We really shouldn't have to be saying this anymore, but texting while driving is a bad idea. Texting on the road has been blamed for several deaths, and compared to the danger of driving drunk. It's ...

Intent on preventing people from using their cell phones while driving, police in Manchester, England are trying out a new method that has caused some public concern. Two smart cars equipped with closed-circuit-TV (CCTV) have hit the streets in Greater Manchester in an attempt to spot and punish distracted drivers, according to the BBC. Each of the tiny cars, both of which take turns sitting ...

Proponents of banning text-messaging-while-driving have a new case to use as evidence for their arguments. Last week in Boise, Idaho, an unnamed driver crashed his car while sending a text message. While this may not seem especially noteworthy, the circumstances surrounding the accident certainly qualify. According to police spokesperson Lynn Hightower, the 37-year-old Nampa, Idaho native ...

We are officially horrified. According to a new survey from British insurance company Esure, one in 10 drivers admit to sending updates to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services while driving. That's just as bad as driving while texting, which is both illegal and stupid. What is really terrifying, though, is the number of reports in which the involved driver was performing some ...

We've chronicled the threats of driving while texting many times in the past, including women who were sentenced to 21-months and four years for committing this act of stupidity. Now we have a member of the United Kingdom's Parliament to add to the list. Lord Ahmed, a member of the British House of Lords, will spend 12 weeks in jail for killing another driver. While the details of the accident ...

Texting while driving KILLS, people. We've seen people accidentally kill themselves while tapping away on their phones, and others incarcerated for getting into accidents while not watching the road, so we're sad to report that the worst case texting-while-driving scenario has happened again: An English woman, Philippa Curtis, was arrested after it was discovered that she was texting when she ...

With the ringing in of the new year, California became the latest state to ban texting while driving, joining the likes of New Jersey and Tennessee. California already passed a ban on teens texting and driving back in August, but now the law has been extended to all drivers regardless of age. So what exactly is banned under the new law? Any manual communication while operating a motor vehicle is ...

Lord Ahmed, a Labour party member in the British House of Lords, will be prosecuted for causing a fatal accident last year, allegedly while texting, Textually.org notes. On Christmas of last year, Ahmed called paramedics on his cell phone shortly after the wreck in which the other driver died immediately. Authorities later discovered that a text message had been sent from that same cell ...

Pervasive cell phone use is on the rise, and it's not just a concern with bad manners. We've reported on people walking in front of trains and crashing cars while focusing more on their phones than what they're doing. And don't forget that this summer's awful train crash in Los Angeles was blamed on a texting. Now, new survey by software company Neverfail, Inc is showing just how pervasive these ...

Headset or no, talking on the phone while driving can be dangerous -- either to you or to your license. Various states have various bits of legislation indicating what is and is not allowed while in motion, but what if you want to have somewhat more specific controls over your kids or workers? That's the idea behind Aegis Mobility's DriveAssist (not to be confused with BMW's Drive Assist), ...

If you thought texting while driving was bad, wait until you get a load of this video (the language is probably not work safe, so hit mute before pressing play). In it a motorcyclist cruising down the middle lane of a very busy highway takes a few minutes to kick back, pull out his phone, and send off a quick text (or three). Motorcycling alone is dangerous enough, so we wouldn't recommend you ...