A 16-year-old Arizona teen won a national contest for public service announcements promoting safety while driving. Bethany Brown of Cave Creek, Ariz., beat entrants from Hawaii to Maine. Judges were from the sponsoring organizations - The National Road Safety Foundation Inc. (NRSF) and National Organizations for Youth Safety ...

  Last June's deadly train crash in the Washington metro area was a wake-up call, said the nation's top transportation official. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testified before Congress yesterday, calling on lawmakers to pass the Public Transportation Safety Program of 2009, which would replace assorted state-run safety ...

  The Distracted Driving Summit called by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood ended yesterday with a call for action. The two-day summit addressed the dangers of text messaging and other distractions behind the wheel and included senior transportation officials, safety advocates, law enforcement experts and academics. It also featured ...

  When a Boston trolley rear-ended another trolley in May, sending 49 people to the hospital, the cause turned out to be texting. The 24-year-old conductor was texting his girlfriend, reported the Boston Globe. Last September, a Metrolink engineer in the Los Angeles area caused fatalities when he was texting a teen-ager. It was the ...