Category Archives: Texting While Driving
Texting and Driving Laws in TX: Hands-Free Law
Distracted driving is rapidly becoming the greatest danger on roads in Texas and across the country. One out of every four accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. According to the National Safety Council, cell phone use while driving contributes to as many as 1.6 million traffic crashes every year,… Read More »
Danger of Cell Phone Use While Driving
Talking or texting on a cell phone is involved in at least 26% of crashes. So concluded the National Safety Council in the Annual Estimate of Cell Phone Crashes. The actual percentage of crashes involving cell phones is probably greater than 26% because investigating officers must rely on driver’s disclosing that they were on… Read More »
Heights crash sends one to hospital
A woman driving a Nissan Maxima was hospitalized after a pickup truck ran into her in Harker Heights near Killeen, Texas on July 31, 2013. The driver of the pickup truck failed to yield the right-of-way at an intersection while traveling west on East Central Texas Expressway. According to Nolanville Police Chief, Gary Kent,… Read More »
Texas legislature pushing texting and driving ban
Sixty percent of the states in the U.S. have some form of law that bans texting while driving. In Texas, texting bans are locally in effect in San Antonio, Austin, El Paso and Dallas, but a statewide bill has yet to be passed. Of the several distracted driving proposals to curb auto accident injuries… Read More »
