Text Messaging (And Twittering) While Driving

Regular readers of our blog probably know that some of our most popular posts on the site are posts about text messaging while driving.  As a result, early last year, I put together a resource page that gathered several article and studies on texting while driving.  Since that time, there have been numerous developments in the texting while driving saga, including several states passing legislation to ban the practice and the new phenomenon of twittering while driving.

This week’s release of a vidoe showing a San Antonio bus driver slamming into parked cars because he was texting while driving seems to be a good nudge to provide an update to the resource page.  As a result, I’m posting several new stories below, led, of course, by the video of the San Antonio driver.  In the next few weeks, I’m going to try and have a page with states that have passed legislation on texting while driving so I’ll save those stories for that later post.

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING ARTICLES

• UK – Text Message Death Leads To Prison Term
• Father Still Hopeful For Florida Law Banning Texting While Driving
• Eden Woman Killed In Crash Was Texting While Driving
• Texting While Driving Becoming Bigger Problem With Teenagers
• Teens Learn Lesson on Texting and Driving
• Cell Phone Misuse May Have Killed Boston Physician
• Cell Phone Users: The New Drunk Drivers
• Text Messaging and Driving Is Considered A Deadly Mix
• Driver Admits Texting Before Crashing Into A Police Car
• Woman Jailed For Texting and Driving
• Teach Teens the Dangers of Texting While Driving
• Driving While Texting — Do You Know The Cost?  (CNN)
• As Text Messages Fly, Dangers Lurk (NY Times)
• Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel (Time)
• Man Accused of Texting While Driving Faces Manslaughter Charge
• Handheld Cellular Usage While Driving (not really noteworthy other than it’s from the Cayman Islands, a place I love and the location of my wedding almost 15 years ago)

NEW STUDIES ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

• RAC FOUNDATION STUDY — Texting While Driving Is Worse Than Drunk Driving — A Study Based On Automobile Simulators

TWITTERING WHILE DRIVING ARTICLES

• More Drivers Using Twitter While Driving
• Twitters Tweet From The Driver’s Seat
• In-Car Twittering On The Rise
• Twittering – The New Driving Menace