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31
May

Educate New Drivers So They Never Begin To Drive Distracted

Lela Jacobson, PhD Behavioral Scientist Center for Injury Research and Prevention The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia In addition to encouraging and persuading current drivers to stop driving while distracted, another important window of opportunity to end distracted driving is to educate learner drivers so that they never begin to drive distracted.

20
Jul

New York’s Governor Cuomo is Serious About Saving Lives By Preventing Distracted Driving

by Joel D. Feldman New York state was one of the earliest states to enact laws restricting motorists’ cell phone use. Using a hand held device while driving would result in a citation if the vehicle was pulled over for another reason. On July 14th New York took another major step to protect its residents, particularly

19
Jul

Governor’s Highway Safety Association Report on Distracted Driving Puzzling and Irresponsible

by Joel D. Feldman The Governor’s Highway Safety Association(GHSA) released its summary of distracted driving research after considering more than 350 scientific papers published between 2000-2011. The results for the most part were not surprising, confirming: distractions play a major role in crashes drivers can be distracted up to half the time they are driving

10
Jun

Disney-Pixar and NHTSA Produce Distracted Driving Public Service Video for Kids

Written by Joel Feldman Recognizing that distracted driving is a threat to world-wide health, Disney-Pixar, in connection with NHTSA, has produced a public service video, Only the Bad Guys, that will introduce children to the dangers of distracted driving. The intention is to teach safe driving behaviors long before kids ever begin to drive. Kids

12
May

“Decade of Action for Road Safety” launched to reduce the projected death toll on highways across the world.

Today was a turning point in the battle to combat a growing epidemic of highway accidents and deaths. The United Nations, in cooperation with many countries across the world, launched the Decade of Action for Road Safety—a 10 year plan to reduce highway deaths by 5 million and injuries from highway accidents by 50 million.

04
Apr

New Westminster filmmaker’s short on distracted driving wins ICBC award

By Grant Granger – New Westminster News Leader David McDonald was a tyke attending F.W. Howay elementary in New Westminster during the 1990s when he began experimenting with a video camera. He’d make improvisational films he admits weren’t that good, but he sure had fun making them. McDonald’s fascination with film is finally starting to