The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is giving $550,000...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is giving $550,000 to Connecticut and Massachusetts to help plan and conduct anti-texting-while-driving campaigns. Each will receive $275,000 to train police to improve spotting of drivers who are texting and to develop anti-texting…
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media campaigns, NHTSA said Tuesday. Currently, 39 states ban texting while driving and 10 ban handheld cellphone use while driving. Prior demonstration programs in Hartford, Conn., and Syracuse, N.Y., found it is more difficult to detect texting than it is to detect people talking on their cellphones -- only about 5 percent of the tickets issued through the programs were for texting violations, NHTSA said. “These two new demonstration programs will help identify real-world protocols and practices to better detect if a person is texting while driving,” NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said in the news release. The demonstration programs funded by the grants will last 24 months, and their results will help inform other states facing similar issues, NHTSA said (http://xrl.us/bnupb8).