Last night, on my way driving home from the gym, I was incredibly tempted to pick up my cell phone and text. I had just gotten a couple of messages, and I was sitting stopped at a traffic light — what ...

Texting and driving is one of the riskiest behaviors drivers can engage in behind the wheel. When you send or read a text, you may only take your eyes off of the road for a few seconds. But according ...

Elon Musk’s latest pitch for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software suggests drivers can safely text while the car handles the road, but traffic laws have not caught up to that promise. Across the United ...

The California legislature has approved a bill prohibiting telephone texting while driving, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has signed it into law. The new law prohibits the operator of any motor ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Teens texting and driving seem to go hand in ...

Chilling new research from the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York suggests that texting while driving has become the number one cause of death amongst teenagers behind the wheel, surpassing ...

Despite years of public awareness campaigns, evolving traffic laws, and increasingly advanced vehicle safety features, distracted driving remains a persistent and growing problem in 2025. Tools like ...

The South Carolina Hands-Free and Distracted Driving Act took effect on Sept. 1, 2025. But the warning period ends Feb. 28.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state of Florida takes distracted driving seriously. In 2024, nearly 300 people in Florida died and over 2,200 people suffered ...