Cars + Phones = Distracted Driving

Every year, distracted driving kills thousands of people. In 2008, 5,870 people were killed in crashes involving distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . Distracted driving includes texting, talking on a cell Read More...

New Rules Against Rail Car Distractions

Distracted driving kills. That's the mantra Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has been repeating almost from the beginning of his leadership at the Federal Transit Administration. And yesterday, a new federal rule was proposed that would ban distracted Read More...

Addicted to Texting? Take Mass Transit, Urges LaHood

The nation's top transportation official said today that safety remains his No. 1 priority and urged drivers to switch to mass transit if they can't put down their cell phone while driving. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made those remarks Read More...

Crackdown on Distracted Driving

Put it down! That's the message the federal government is touting these days as it works hard to stop distracted driving. Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the launch of two pilot programs to increase law enforcement efforts Read More...

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...