Joe Teater was riding to an after school activity with his mom when their car was hit by a young woman driving an SUV who ran a red light. The young driver was talking on a cell phone at the time of the crash. Joe’s mom had only minor injuries, but Joe was seated in
On December 29th 2009, Kassy was texting while driving and not wearing a seatbelt. She lost control of her car, went into the opposing lane of traffic and was struck head on and died—she was 18. Kassy was a 2009 graduate of Meridian High School in Idaho and had just completed her first semester at
Whether it’s texting, accessing Facebook, taking selfies or using other apps, including Snapchat, we have become a nation of distracted drivers. So what is different about the “Snapchat distracted driving lawsuit?” It is because not only was the distracted driver sued, but also Snapchat, the manufacturer of the app the driver was using at the time of the crash [….]
George Jebaily likes to live by the motto: “If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem.” When it comes to the problem of distracted driving, Jebaily is doing what he can within his community to be a part of the solution through his work with The Casey Feldman Foundation and its signature project, EndDD.org. [….]
My daughter Casey was killed by a distracted driver in 2009. It was daytime and she was walking across the street in a crosswalk when she was struck by a 58 year-old man who ran a stop sign. He said he never saw her. Since that time, my wife and I have made it our mission to change driving attitudes and raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. But a new report from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) should be a wake up call that we need to also address distracted walking [….]
EndDD (End Distracted Driving) founders and parents of the late Casey Feldman, Joel Feldman and Dianne Anderson were on The Today Show this morning talking about their daughter, Casey and distracted driving. View the segment [….]
Distracted driving crashes are receiving more and more attention. Much of the focus has been on texting, and more recently on using all the other apps and features of our phones, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. But what has not received much attention is the dangerous distractions being built into our cars [….]
My father met me for lunch at Bennigan’s a few weeks before I made the biggest move of my life—to New York City—in the summer of 2003. It was that lunch with him, and one other, in the same restaurant, five days before he died, that I had to hold onto as I made my way in the big city. Because three months after it, he was gone [….]
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