Safety & Accident

A total of 71% of employers have policies, but only 32% are confident that current enforcement is effective, according to a new survey from Aegis Mobility.

Tags: cell phone use, Distracted driving, smartphone, driving while texting, Aegis Mobility

Forty-nine percent of drivers say they answer incoming phone calls while driving, and 24% are willing to place calls on all, most or some trips.

Tags: NHTSA, cell phone use, Distracted driving, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driving while texting

New neuroscience research in Canada indicates that such a turn requires a huge amount of brain activation and involves multiple areas of the brain. Combining this task with a phone conversation is a dangerous undertaking, compromising vision and alertness.

Tags: cell phone use, Distracted driving

Nextraq has partnered with Cellcontrol, a distracted driving technology company, which uses a Bluetooth Trigger Unit coupled with a mobile app that can block or restrict calls, emails, texting and web browsing.

Tags: driver behavior, cell phone use, Distracted driving, NexTraq, Cellcontrol, driving while texting, mobile app, Nextraq DriveGuard

Traffic crashes remain the No. 1 cause of workplace death and injury, costing employers in excess of $60 billion annually, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Tags: cell phone use, safety policies, Distracted driving, NETS

Four years of data show a significant increase in the use of mobile web services while driving.

Tags: State Farm, cell phone use, Distracted driving, driving safety, smartphone, driving while texting

The grants are designed to help test anti-texting enforcement protocols and techniques such as using stationary patrols, spotters on overpasses on elevated roadways and roving patrols.

Tags: NHTSA, cell phone use, Distracted driving, texting bans, driving while texting

Cell phone usage was prevalent in both fatal and injury crashes, related to 408 deaths (13% of total distracted driving fatalities) and 24,000 injuries (6% of those injured in distraction-related crashes).

Tags: Accidents, NHTSA, cell phone use, Distracted driving, fatal accidents

GHSA’s new policy broadens the organization’s support of distracted driving legislation to include a call for handheld bans for all drivers.

Tags: cell phone use, policies, GHSA, Distracted driving, texting bans, cell phone laws

'Drive by Example' Corporate Protection Program said that it offers the flexibility necessary to effectively assist companies of any type or size — from locally based businesses with a single office to national enterprises with sales, delivery and service personnel in all 50 states.

Tags: Driver Training, cell phone use, safety policies, Distracted driving, driver education

New York's distracted driving law makes texting while driving a primary traffic offense, giving police officers the power to stop drivers for this offense alone.

Tags: New York, cell phone use, Distracted driving, texting bans, tickets, cell phone laws, driving while texting

The 'Blueprint for Ending Distracted Driving' plan encourages the remaining 11 states without distracted driving laws to enact and enforce this type of legislation. It also asks the auto industry to adopt new guidelines for technology to reduce the potential for distraction on devices built into, or brought into, vehicles.

Tags: NHTSA, cell phone use, Distracted driving, texting bans, cell phone laws, driving while texting

Ohio is the 39th state to prohibit texting behind the wheel for all drivers.

Tags: cell phone use, Distracted driving, Ohio, texting bans, cell phone laws, driving while texting

The company said the Coca Cola driver, Araceli Venessa Cabral, was driving a car, not a truck, and worked in a sales role, rather than as a delivery driver, as originally reported by law firm Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys. The driver was also using a hands-free device, Coca Cola said, which is consistent with, and exceeds, Texas state law requirements.

Tags: driver behavior, hands-free, cell phone use, Lawsuits, safety policies, Distracted driving

In the internal market analysis, the distracted driving technology developer said that it found only 5% of companies have deployed a solution from one of the top five vendors, which are capable of supporting such a large workforce.

Tags: accident prevention, Safety Technology, cell phone use, safety policies, Distracted driving, Cellcontrol

Coca Cola released a statement after the trial, according to MSNBC, that said its cell phone policy is ‘completely consistent with, and in fact, exceeds the requirements of Texas law,’ and that the company disagrees with the jury’s verdict and plans to appeal.

Tags: driver behavior, cell phone use, Lawsuits, safety policies, Distracted driving

Although more companies are taking steps to enforce written cell phone use policies, according to the ZoomSafer study, only 26% of survey respondents felt 'very confident' that current enforcement methods are sufficient to modify driver behavior.

Tags: cell phone use, policies, safety policies, ZoomSafer, Distracted driving

In an audit of a fleet of 100 FMCSA-regulated vehicles found that there were 450 cell phone distractions per day, 111 distractions per hour and four distractions per mile driven.

Tags: cell phone use, fleet policies, safety policies, ZoomSafer, Distracted driving

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimate on-the-job crashes cost employers more than $24,500 per property damage crash. Both organizations found that the cost rises to $150,000 per injury and to as much as $3.6 million per fatality.

Tags: liability, NSC, cell phone use, fleet policies, safety policies, Distracted driving

ZoomSafer Inc. and Drivewyze Inc. announced their intent to work together to ensure product compatibility, combining Drivewyze's toll road info and ZoomSafer's distracted driving technology.

Tags: Tolls, cell phone use, ZoomSafer, Distracted driving, smartphone, FleetSafer Mobile, cell phone laws, Drivewyze

If your fleet has a policy banning cell phone use while driving, we’d like to hear from you.

Tags: FMCSA, cell phone use, survey, texting bans, cell phone laws

In a ZoomSafer survey, not only are more commercial fleet operators implementing on-the-job cell phone policies for their drivers, but more are enforcing established policies too. Part of the increase is likely due to the FMCSA’s recent ban on cell phone use while driving for commercial drivers.

Tags: FMCSA, commercial fleets, cell phone use, ZoomSafer, texting bans

In a Zoomsafer blog post, the software company addresses why mass media needs to mention that risky distracted driving behaviors are more than just a problem for teens.

Tags: Accidents, cell phone use, ZoomSafer, Distracted driving, driving while texting