Safety & Accident

Whether using a voice-to-text app or texting manually, drivers will see their response time double when they're engaged in texting. The distraction level is essentially the same, according to a study conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Tags: Distracted driving, Texas A&M, driving while texting, voice-to-text apps, Southwest Region University Transportation Center

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

Aegis Mobility launched its third annual 'Distracted Driving Survey' for fleets. The results will be released mid-April.

Tags: Distracted driving, survey, Aegis Mobility

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

How does employee non-commercial driving affect organizations? It's important to reduce and prevent accidents.

Tags: Driver Training, Distracted driving, driving safety, Succeed Management Solutions

The study, which was conducted by the Swedish Transport Administration, found that digital signs often take a driver’s eyes off the road for more than two seconds. According to a study by Virginia Tech, 80% of all crashes occur when a driver isn't paying attention within three seconds of the collision occurring.

Tags: NHTSA, 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 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said those technologies include lane-departure warning, forward collision warning, adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, electronic stability control, tire pressure monitoring and speed-limiting systems.

Tags: vehicle safety technology, drunk driving, accident prevention, Distracted driving, National Transportation Safety Board, collision avoidance technology, drugged driving

Aegis will offer ZoomSafer’s FleetSafer Mobile and FleetSafer Vision products in addition to the company's Drive Assist software solution. The combined companies will now be called DriveSafer.

Tags: driver safety, driver behavior, ZoomSafer, Distracted driving, PHH Arval, Aegis Mobility, DriveSafer

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

This study, which identifies the role of unconscious thought processes in texting and driving, found that texting while driving is predicted by a person's level of habit — more so than how much someone texts.

Tags: Texting, driver behavior, Distracted driving, University of Michigan, 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

The materials include ways to avoid rear-end collisions — one of the most common types of crashes experienced by fleet drivers, teen drivers and the general population.

Tags: accident prevention, Driver Training, Distracted driving, rear-end collisions, driving safety, NETS, driver education

'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 study found that advanced driver monitoring and assistance features, for example a forward collision alert system, increases drivers’ focus on the road ahead by 126% when automated steering is operating.

Tags: vehicle safety technology, accident prevention, accident avoidance safety technologies, Distracted driving, General Motors Corp.

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