Driver distraction accounts for about 20 percent of all crashes annually.
Drivers, don’t mess with your phones while you’re headed down the road. Hopkins and other metro police departments are ramping up texting enforcement starting Thursday. Crystal, Golden Valley, Hopkins, Minneapolis, New Hope, Robbinsdale and University of Minnesota Police Departments are highlighting the issue during the prom and graduation season. Driver distraction accounts for about 20 percent of all crashes annually. In the past three years, distracted teen drivers were involved in crashes that resulted in 25 deaths and 4,505 injuries. Minnesota law bars drivers from reading, composing or sending texts or e-mails, as well as accessing the Web, while the vehicle is “in motion or a part of traffic,” according to the Minneapolis Police …
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office asks people to make a New Year's resolution in 2013 that could save a life or prevent a crash.
Editor's Note: The following was taken from a Hennepin County Sheriff's Office e-newsletter. A new survey indicates that while 97 percent of teens know texting while driving is dangerous, 43 percent of them admit to sending a text while driving – and 75 percent say the practice is common among their friends.The survey found that teenagers feel pressure to quickly respond to text messages – and adults are also setting a poor example by texting while driving themselves. Make a New Year's resolution in 2013 that could save your life or prevent a crash. Take a pledge NOT to text and drive and ask your family members to do the same. Remember, it is illegal to text and drive in Minnesota. Create a new habit: Put your phone in the glove box …
Hopkins Sen. Ron Latz (DFL-District 44) said he believes some legislators are conflicted about whether to ramp up the penalty in cases where the crash may be more accidental than criminal.
joe
4:26 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2013
Mike B, you are correct about women in minivans doing everything but paying attention to their driving. They think the world circles around them, & nobody else matters out there on the road. Men can be bad too, but hands down, the minivan women are the worst. more ›