Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood recently applauded both Utah and Kentucky for joining the fight against distracted driving.

Twenty-Three states now have various laws in action against this dangerous act. Lahood himself commented, “Distracted driving is an epidemic that kills thousands and injures hundreds of thousands more every year. Drivers should always devote their full attention to the road, not to texting and talking on a cell phone.”

For more information on distracted driving and the Department of Transportation’s work, visit www.distraction.gov.

DriveSafe.ly combats distracted driving and allows users to stay in touch while keeping their eyes on the road. Why is this so important? Is it really that big of a problem? We’ve seen the Virginia Tech studies in the past along with all the news reports but has there been any update? You bet. All the signs point still point in the right direction, it is time to keep our eyes where they are supposed to be.

Why?

In 2009, California alone issued 137,056 cellphone citations.

Kentucky joins the fight against TWD

Shelby Michigan joins a long list of local authorities initiating campaigns to crackdown on distracted driving

Not only are you endangering the lives of those around you and your own but with all these laws and campaigns your chances of getting caught are high. Is it really worth it?

As texting while driving continues to be a problem on today’s roads MSNBC’s Tech Watch looked into a number of apps to combat the dangerous behavior. DriveSafe.ly once again appears as a top candidate! >> Full Story

We’ve talked about the TWD studies before and the truth is in the numbers. Texting while driving is dangerous and a very real threat. Reading those texts is just as dangerous, your eyes aren’t on the road.

“The brevity of these messages is what I think is important,” George Fleetwood of AT&T Indiana told WTHR-TV. “Just being distracted for a moment to read a two- or three-word text can bring about the end of your life or maim you severely.” Source

A number of companies are considering enforcing policies regarding cell phone use. The Pittsburgh Tribune looks further into the growing trend.

Cyndi Saxe Schmidt parks her cell phone while driving, but she can’t hang up on the idea of a mobile office.

“I do so much of my calling while I’m in the car,” said Schmidt, broker of record who oversees three Pittsburgh-area Keller Williams Realty offices. She uses hands-free technology that connects her phone to the car radio. “I hated to hold the phone while I’m driving. It’s just not safe.”

More companies are taking steps to curb their employees’ hand-held cell phone habits in the car, experts said.

“It’s getting to be a hot issue,” said Phyllis Hartman, founder and president of PGHR Consulting., a human resources firm in the North Hills. “Companies are becoming concerned about the safety of their employees and the liability issues.”

DriveSafe.ly was featured recently among a list of solutions to combat texting while driving. The full story below!

Seattle - News service, KING 5, reports on the fast approaching reality that texting while driving is not welcome and soon to be illegal. >> Full Story

By: Jon Shirek

ATLANTA, Ga. — He’s a busy president of an Atlanta company, and he depends on texting and e-mailing. But John J. Williams decided he will never again text while driving.

“Only because I have first-hand knowledge, now, of somebody that got killed because of this.”

Williams’ first-hand knowledge may make him a witness against his former girlfriend, Lori Reineke, who is denying what police are now saying about her.  She was accused in Gwinnett County last week of vehicular homicide while texting — hitting and killing a pedestrian on Sugarloaf Parkway, on October 30, because she was distracted, because she was texting while driving. >> Full Story