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| July 08, 2010 |
| Texting While Driving - Part 5 - How Can You Help? |
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Think back to the times when you’ve texted while driving. Was it to text your boss those earnings forecasts? Or maybe a meet up with friends?
We’ve essentially been conditioned, like Pavlov’s dogs, to respond to our phone’s ringing and buzzes. It’s not as though our friends can’t wait till we get home to respond to their messages, nor does it make sense to focus our cognitive abilities on giving our bosses in-depth reports while we drive.
Our addiction to staying connected everywhere has essentially created a dangerous driving environment on the roads.
So, how can you help? Starting now, educate your children, family and friends on the dangers of texting while driving. The simple habit of waiting until you’re not behind the wheel could save a life.
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| July 01, 2010 |
| Texting While Driving - Part 4 - Oprah’s Distracted Driving Episode – Sad Reminder |
| Posted By Cellino & Barnes |
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While doing research for this series on texting while driving, we were reminded just how dangerous distracted driving is and how quickly a tragic accident can happen.
There are numerous shocking texting while driving videos on the web, but we wanted to find a video that would share with you the stories behind the tragedies. This video clearly shares the pain people feel when they have lost a loved one in a texting while driving accident. It also shares the sorrow and remorse felt by someone who was the cause of a tragedy.
OPRAH DISTRACTED DRIVING VIDEO
Although you may have seen this episode on texting while driving, which aired in January, 2010, it will have the same affect on you the second and third time you watch it. We encourage you to share this video with your loved ones.
Please do not text and drive.
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| June 29, 2010 |
| Summer Safety – Part 1 – Bike Accident Safety |
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Bike riding is a fun and fairly safe way to: commute to work, get some great exercise, or just spend time outdoors. Biking can be dangerous and we urge you to use caution and please be safe this summer.
Below is a list of some basic things you can do to keep yourself safer this season.
Wear your bicycle helmet.
In the United States, there are over 300,000 children who visit the emergency room each year as a result of being involved in
bicycle accidents
. Many of these children suffer
brain injuries
. The basic habit of wearing a helmet with the straps securely locked, could have prevented many of these injuries.
Keep yourself well lit.
If you enjoy cycling at night, keep yourself well-lit. Make sure you have reflectors facing in all directions and try to wear reflective safety-gear. Also, for less than $15 dollars, you can purchase red blinking lights for the front and back of your bike. These lights will alert motorists to your presence long before they have the chance to cause you any harm.
Avoid texting while biking and other distractions.
Texting while biking is just as dangerous as
texting while driving
, perhaps even more so. Teenagers attempt to text with one hand, while trying to steer with the other. This is a recipe for disaster.
Listening to music and talking on your cell phone is also very dangerous. If you’re not listening to the vehicles around you, it will be difficult to react when something unexpected happens.
Just pay attention.
The best overall advice is to stay alert and be aware of your surroundings. Regardless of how much safety equipment you are wearing, if you don’t pay attention, you increase your risk of being injured, or causing someone else to be injured.
So to protect you and your children while riding a bike pay attention, use reflectors and lights and wear a helmet!
This post is part 1 of 5, presented by Cellino and Barnes. Our firm is committed to keeping our community safe this summer.
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| June 23, 2010 |
| Texting While Driving - Part 3 - Potential Solutions and Issues |
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While state legislation punishes drivers for driving while texting, many still often fail to do so.
Watch texting accident - YouTube
While authorities don’t have the capability to always be watching over everybody’s shoulder. Some possible solutions may be to encourage the creation of technologies that will prevent drivers from accessing their text messaging while driving. For instance, Textecution is a mobile phone application that blocks text messaging functions on your children’s phones while they drive. Essentially, how the program works is that it links into the phone’s GPS system and disables the text messaging function if a vehicle is moving more than 10 mph.
Similarly, Xuesong Zhou, a University of Utah researcher, has developed a device that disables cell phones entirely when a specially engineered car key is inserted into the car’s ignition.
Finally, several states have outlawed texting while driving, and others are moving to ban the practice. Additionally, legislators are trying to move bills to create federal legislation to keep drivers from texting while driving.
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| June 08, 2010 |
| Texting While Driving - Part 1: Overview |
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Texting while driving is a growing concern in communities across the United States and the world. In many New York communities from Buffalo to Rochester and to the Bronx, numerous lives have been tragically lost because of texting while driving. Cellino and Barnes offers this series of blog posts to help grapple with the lingering issues and potential solutions of texting while driving.
One of the leading causes of serious injury and death in America is motor vehicle accidents. How often do we see distracted drivers behind the wheel? People eating, applying makeup, talking on the phone… there always seems to be some distraction that is inhibiting a driver’s attention. In the last couple of years, a new distraction has arisen: Driving While Texting (DWT).
Under current legislation, the act of driving while texting is defined as: composing, sending, or reading text messages, email, or making similar use of the internet on a mobile device while operating a motor vehicle. The practice is viewed by many authorities as dangerous and has been outlawed or restricted in twenty states and the District of Columbia.
While everybody understands that distracted driving is dangerous, some question how DWT is more dangerous than being distracted by a messy cheeseburger or a hot cup of coffee? Studies show that texting while driving increases the likelihood of accidents and distracted driving. For instance, a study conducted at the University of Utah found a six-fold increase in distraction-related accidents while texting. While a more recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute presents the follow facts:
• Using driving studies of observing long-haul trucks and light vehicles driving 6 million combined miles, researchers observed 4,452 safety-critical incidents, which includes crashes, near-crashes, safety-critical events, and lane deviations
• 81% of the safety critical events involved some type of driver distraction
• Text messaging had the greatest relative risk, with drivers being 23 times more likely to experience a safety-critical event when texting.
• The study also found that drivers typically take their eyes off the forward roadway for an average of four out of six seconds when texting.
All in all, there is conclusive evidence of the dangers of driving while texting. This post is part 1 of 6, presented by Cellino and Barnes. Our firm is committed to helping the community deal with the growing problem of texting while driving.
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