Article: SEN. KLOBUCHAR SEEKS NATIONWIDE BAN ON 'TEXTING WHILE DRIVING'

Article: Traffic safety 'epidemic' looms from texting ...
Dayton Daily News;  September 26, 2009 ;     538 words ... ... people increasingly rely on texting to communicate, said Teater ... Council. "We've got a huge traffic safety epidemic right around the ... overall support for bans on both texting and cell phone use while driving ... education, legislation banning texting and cell phone use and technology ...

Article: park those thumbs; It'll take a village - parents, safety ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the Office of Traffic Safety, said that despite ... are involved in texting behind the wheel ... those in the traffic safety community is ... the dangers of texting and driving ... them to receive traffic safety messages, the ...

Article: Texting while driving ban beginsThursday
Capital (Annapolis);  September 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... re seeing that (texting) has been mentioned ... AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety launch new efforts ... other new drivers from texting while driving. In ... Foundation's 2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index showed ... nationwide admitted to texting while driving at least ...

Article: AAA Campaign Aims to Pass Texting While Driving Bans in ...
Journal of Transportation;  October 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety are launching new legislative ... the impact of California's texting ban. AAA will join the Foundation ... L. Darbelnet. "Enacting texting bans for drivers in all 50 ... or other new drivers from texting while driving. Laws differ ...

Article: AAA Campaign Aims to Pass Texting While Driving Bans in ...
Business Wire;  September 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... AAA Research Shows Reduced Texting by Drivers After California ... and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety are launching new legislative ... the impact of California's texting ban. AAA will join the Foundation ... President Tom Frymark. "Enacting texting bans for drivers in all 50 ...

Article: Signs of texting while driving are hard for officers to ...
Daily Breeze;  July 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that over time the risks of texting will lead to a decline in ... ignoring the hands-free and texting laws, a study released last ... the auto club's senior traffic safety researcher. "But contrary ... sanity will prevail. "Texting and driving should not mix ...

Article: Text messaging and driving don't mix, studies find; ...
International Herald Tribune;  July 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... organization is focusing on texting among light-car drivers ... drivers know the risks of texting while driving -- but do it anyway. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety plans on Tuesday to publish ... of people consider drivers texting or e-mailing to pose a ...