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• Honk If You Love Jesus…

  
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• Driving and Phones Dont’ Mix

  
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  For drivers that send text messages while driving their chances of being in a crash are six times greater. A new study showed that texting or talking while driving on mobile phones is dangerous. The study was done using a driving simulator, but how it relates to results on the road are unknown. But even if it’s ...
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• Teens would ignore texting-while-driving laws

  
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  With texting up 10-fold over the past three years and as momentum for a nationwide law against texting while driving builds, there are indicators that the driver demographic that texts the most would benefit the least. "Already 19 states and the District of Columbia ban texting by all drivers, while 9 others prohibit ...
  6 days ago

• Call me the (texting) tumbling dice

  
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  Aside from falling off the side of a mountain, drowning during a triathlon or simply slumping over my desk after suffering a rogue heart attack, I think I know how Ill die. Ill be busy texting as I stride along one of Manhattans side streets when, boom, Ill tumble head over heels into one of those sidewalk cellar ...
  1 week ago

• Texting while driving may cause you to drive into a nuclear power plant reactor!

  
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  . . Teens Ignore Laws Against Texting While Driving By Tim Gaynor and Sinead Carew REUTERS.COM Karen Cordova, a 17-year-old high school student and ...
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• Texthook should be used in appropriate places

  
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  In a world where texting-while-driving is slowly becoming a cardinal sin, people seem to have no problem with putting a phone cradle on a stroller. This is…the Texthook!Hopefully this is not designed to take a walk in the park with your little baby, and attempt to make a text message. Unless you can [...]
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• House votes to ban text messaging while driving

  
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  The Michigan House of Representatives voted Tuesday (December 8th) on a key public safety measure to ban texting while driving. Rep. John Proos (R-St. Joseph) said, “Distracted driving is a hazard on our roads.  We are a society on the go – always cramming in as much activity as possible. Unfortunately, this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texting While Driving and the Seduction of Invincibility

  
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  This morning on my favorite radio station (which is admittedly for a younger demographic), the radio announcers were discussing a study published in July about texting. Most of us have heard about the risks of texting while driving, and this study on truck drivers found that texting was linked with a 23-fold ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have You Got it in You, Imogen Heap

  
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  Todays frustration has been brought to us by the word "Hello!WhatAreYouDoing?" I was almost hit today by cars doing the following: A car doing a U-turn next to a crosswalk when signs say it is not safe to. A driver listening to his earbuds while driving and not seeing or hearing the ambulance heading ...
  3 weeks ago

• Texting and driving, deer on South St., siren call

  
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  Life in Davidson is an occasional column of short items that capture life in our small town. Have an item to share? Send it to editor@davidsonnews.net . ON TUESDAY, THIS BECOMES A CRIME Sitting behind Summit Coffee, a teen looks up from her cell phone as a friend steps out of his car in the parking lot: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Emotion rules the day with texting-while-driving law

  
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  Earlier this month, I wrote an email to all members of Toledo City Council asking them to address the issues raised in this Cato Institute article about texting-while-driving laws.From 12 members of council, only three bothered to respond. One was District 2 Councilman D. Michael Collins, the sponsor of the ordinance, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hands on the wheel, please; state texting-while-driving ban coming soon

  
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  Colorado’s ban on texting while driving—courtesy of House Bill 1094 —goes into effect next Tuesday, the first day of December. So will Colorado drivers limit their texting at all? It’s a law that will clearly rely on self-enforcement, reports the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer : Enforcement of ...
  4 weeks ago

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