OSWEGO, IL — April was Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and Oswego police issued a total of 123 citations during its month-long campaign, officials announced. The increased enforcement was ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – A new campaign in the Star City aims to address distracted driving, titled “Focused Driving, Safe Arriving.” Distracted driving has increased throughout Roanoke ...

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and Glen Cove Chief of Police William Whitton urges residents to join the community-wide effort to reduce distracted driving with the campaign slogan ...

According to Newsday's Dangerous Roads series, distracted driving was a factor in as many as 11% of fatal crashes from 2014-23.

This campaign responds to a 26% increase in distracted driving crashes in Roanoke from 2019 to 2023, according to the Traffic Records Electronic Data System (TREDS).

Final thoughts. The new data comes as distracted driving remains a problem that occurs way too often for comfort. According to the latest data from the NHTSA, about 8% of fatal crashes, an ...

Police cited 6,450 drivers for using their cell phones during April's distracted driving enforcement campaign, a thousand more than last year's operation.

Around this same time, distracted driving crashes gradually came down to 8,571 in 2024 from 11,910 in 2021, its height since 2020, according to the OSHP.

So far in 2023, there’s been a total of 6,281 distracted driving crashes and 5,189 distracted driving violations issued, according to the State Highway Patrol’s Distracted Driving Dashboard.

Starting this summer, drivers in Pennsylvania will have to be extra mindful about using their cellphones while driving. Pennsylvania’s new Distracted Driving Law, also known as Paul Miller’s ...