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'From One Second To The Next' is Werner Herzog's take on the repercussions of texting while driving.

By | September 20th, 2013|2 Comments

No GPS, no music unless they’re hands-free

Update: Read Paul Payne's follow-up story about the court ruling here. If you're using your cell phone to get directions or play music while you're driving, you're breaking the law. That's the ruling released Monday by a Fresno County appeals court. After considering People v. Spriggs, the three-judge Superior Court [...]

By | April 10th, 2013|19 Comments

Cellphones No. 1 traffic safety problem

Cellphone use by drivers is the No. 1 safety problem on California's roads, a state survey finds. The survey won't come as a surprise to Road Warrior readers who regularly report dangerous driving by motorists on cellphones. And it comes as the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that [...]

By | December 14th, 2011|0 Comments

Fewer speeding tickets but more for texting

Fewer drivers were ticketed last year for speeding on local highways than the year before, but there was a dramatic increase in those cited for texting while driving and for violating car-pool lane hours, according to Sonoma County traffic court records. For speeding, 5,975 drivers were ticketed last year on [...]

By | June 13th, 2011|6 Comments

Biggest safety problems: Speeding, cell phones

What's the biggest safety problem on California's road? Speeding and aggressive driving, according to a survey of drivers by the state Office of Traffic Safety. What's the most serious distraction for drivers? Cell phone conversation, whether handheld or hands free, by far was No. 1 at 59.5 percent. Despite that [...]

By | November 19th, 2010|2 Comments

More ignoring state ban on texting while driving

Here's an interesting story from the Associated Press that probably won't surprise anyone: LOS ANGELES (AP) — More California drivers are texting behind the wheel despite a state ban. The Automobile Club of Southern California says a sampling of 4,000 vehicles in Orange County found 2.7 percent of the drivers [...]

By | September 16th, 2010|11 Comments

Do girls drive faster than boys?

The long-held belief that girls generally are better and safer drivers than boys may have just been wrecked. A new study by the Allstate Foundation finds nearly half (48 percent) of teenage girls surveyed said they are likely to speed more than 10 mph over the speed limit compared to [...]

By | May 6th, 2010|3 Comments