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Articlesby Cheryl KnightDecember 11, 2018

10 Ways to Minimize Distracted Driving

Distracted driving claims thousands of lives each year. Do you know how commercial truck fleets can prevent distracted driving temptations?

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Newsby StaffNovember 30, 2018

Texting Increases 30% During Holidays

People text and use apps while behind the wheel over 30% more during the winter holidays as compared with an average weekday, according to data collected and analyzed by TrueMotion, a smartphone telematics company.

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Newsby StaffNovember 29, 2018

Distracted Driving Crashes Spike on Highways

Distracted driving-related collisions are up to 49% more severe when they occur on a highway system, indicating that modifying roadway design could improve safety in distracted driving crashes.

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NewsOctober 15, 2018

Texas Leads Nation in Distracted Driving Fatalities

Texas led the nation in distracted driving deaths in 2017, as 366 people lost their lives as a result of an inattentive driver, according to the National Safety Council’s analysis of 2017 data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

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Newsby StaffSeptember 25, 2018

Travelers Institute Hosts Distracted Driving Events

"Every Second Matters," an educational event series for the public and designed to curtail distracted driving, kicked off in Hartford, Conn. on Sept. 25, with several future events planned in the U.S. and Canada.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 21, 2018

Coping with Cognitive Distraction

At some point every driver will experience moments of tunnel vision — a sort of mental "checking out" that means they are no longer fully focused on the task at hand. In those moments, a driver may not see debris in the road or even an oncoming car.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 19, 2018

Illinois Increases Penalty for Texting While Driving

A new law that will reclassify a first-time offense of texting while driving as a moving violation will go into effect on July 1, 2019 in Illinois and will boost the penalty for violators.

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ProductsAugust 20, 2018

EDGE3 Launches Distracted Driving Analytics

EDGE3 Technologies announced the commercial launch of a new platform: CloudDETECT, which identifies unsafe behaviors so that fleet managers may proactively improve overall fleet safety.

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Newsby StaffAugust 6, 2018

Distracted Driving Citations Spike in Georgia

Georgia law officers wrote 961 tickets in July for motorists who violated the state's new hands-free law, which went into effect on July 1, which was a more than 30% increase from the year before.

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Newsby StaffAugust 1, 2018

Ohio Toughens Distracted Driving Penalties

Legislation signed by Gov. John Kasich on July 30 broadens Ohio's current texting-while-driving ban to include several forms of distracted driving and could cost offenders an additional $100 penalty.

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