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 to combat distracted driving, and these guidelines issued yesterday ...

    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 you're on your cell phone talking to your dog, or discussing time travel ...

  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, 24, who had pulled over to the side of the road with a flat tire. In the hour before ...