Texting Banned for Commercial Bus, Truck Drivers

Commercial bus and truck drivers who text while driving will face stiff fines, according to new federal guidelines effective immediately. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood 's summit on distracted driving last fall promised to take specific steps Read More...

Distracted Driving as Bad as Drunk Driving

Since Ray LaHood became the U.S. Secretary of Transportation last year, he's been championing ways to avoid distracted driving - specifically texting while driving. Click here to view the DOT's new public service announcement on what happens when Read More...

Distracted Driving and Prison

When texting while driving kills, Britons land in prison. That's what happened to 22-year-old Phillipa Curtis, who received 21 months in a high-security women's prison for ramming her car into the rear end of a Fiat driven by Victoria McBride, Read More...