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02
Apr

Vlogging: Just Another Unnecessary Distraction

Everyone knows the dangers of texting while driving. An average text consumes about five seconds of a driver’s attention and at 55 mph, a driver can travel the length of a football field without even looking at the road. But there is less attention paid to the phenomenon of #VloggingWhileDriving which is made ‘easy’ with smartphone applications, like SnapChat. This ‘video blogging’ while driving craze is anything but new. It has been around almost as long as YouTube itself. A simple Google search will show more than 1 million hits of drivers vlogging [….]

21
Mar

Danielle Marie Plourde, 11 – MA

Danielle Marie Plourde died in an automobile collision in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, on February 20, 2006 after the SUV, which also carried her family, was broadsided by a tractor-trailer. A young woman, talking on her cell phone, drove through a stop sign and hit the tractor trailer, causing the driver to lose control, colliding with Plourde’s vehicle.

26
Feb

“Springfield students hear dangers of distracted driving”

Published in The Delaware County News Network, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 – By Susan L. Serbin, Correspondent – Joel Feldman has given presentations on the dangers of distracted driving in the United States and Canada. He has spoken to nearly a quarter of a million youngsters and parents. But he admitted (privately), the talk at Springfield High School was more difficult than others. Springfield was the alma mater of his daughter Casey [….]

23
Feb

Selling Nothing But Safety – Firms Adopt Safe Policies at the AAJ Convention

EndDD.org exhibited at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) winter convention in Palm Springs this past weekend, courtesy of John Bair, Milestone Consulting LLC. Our sole purpose at the convention was to have members adopt safe driving policies for their firms. We received overwhelming support, with dozens of law firms adopting our safe driving policy [….]

01
Feb

DISTRACTED DRIVERS: As Dangerous As Drunk Drivers [say Mass Trial Lawyers at High School]

Published in GrotonHerald.com, By Robert Stewart, Jan.30, 2015 It was two years ago this month that the worlds of two young women from the Groton-Dunstable community would be irreversibly changed and tragically connected. One woman was a 2000 graduate of Groton-Dunstable Regional High School and the other was only weeks away from graduating with the

30
Jan

“MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL: Trial attorneys bring ‘End Distracted Driving’ to students”

    Published in Wicked Local-Medford, Posted Jan. 29, 2015 @ 1:50 pm The Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA) brought its “End Distracted Driving” (EDD) [EndDD] program to Medford High School on Wednesday, Jan. 7. The program is headed by MATA President Charlotte E. Glinka and Philadelphia Attorney Joel Feldman, who created the EDD

14
Jan

Dr Nancy, RN – Video interviews with EndDD founders – “Creating the Casey Anderson Feldman Foundation to Raise Awareness About the Dangers of Distracted Driving”

Dianne Anderson and Joel Feldman, founders of the Casey Feldman Foundation and EndDD, were interviewed in two separate 1/2 hour shows by Nancy Valentine, PhD RN, on the Dr. Nancy RN, Healthy World, Healthy Nation, Healthy You TV show. Click on the link below to go to the website and watch the video segment on