Archive for the 'Don't Text & Drive' Category

It Can Wait

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

AT&T has announced a campaign aimed at curtailing the unsafe practice of texting while driving.  The campaign hopes to remind all drivers about the risks of texting and driving, especially younger drivers.
The national promotional campaign features real life stories and the text message that was sent just prior to the accident.  The commercials hope to [...]

Texting While Driving: Danger Eliminated with New Technology

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

SALT LAKE CITY and LAS VEGAS-March 22, 2010- Safe Driving Systems, LLC. (www.safedrivingsystems.com) will demonstrate how to eliminate the dangers of mobile phone calls and texting while driving using Key2SafeDrivingTM at the International CTIA Wireless 2010® show.
Key2SafeDriving is available for general release for BlackBerry®, Windows Mobile® and SymbianTM powered mobile phones. Other operating systems and [...]

Texters 23 Times More Likely to Crash

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

A study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that drivers distracted by text message are 23 times more likely to be in a crash than drivers that are not sending or receiving a text message.
Drivers typing a text message spend 4.6 seconds out of every 6 seconds looking away from the road.  If going [...]

Valentine’s Day Text Message Romance

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Previous posts on the Text Message Blog have discussed text message breakups and sexting by Tiger Woods and just ordinary people.
In this video, Katie Couric reports on text message break ups and the massive amount of text messages that are being sent today.

Katie: Texting and Driving

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Katie Couric talks about text messaging and driving. Be sure to have your teen driver watch this.

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