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New York may soon join 26 other states that allow police to pull over drivers who are sending text messages from behind the wheel. Law enforcement embrace the new measure but some say it could be hard to prove.
The students at West Seneca East High School are taking 2 on Your Side's Pledge 2 Hang Up and making it their own.
Williamsville resident Christina Curtis was in a car accident while she was texting in 2008, and is telling others to not make the same mistake she did.
The New York State Police has kicked the third phase of their initiative against distracted driving, "Operation Hang Up" on May 4.
A local business owner has taken our Pledge 2 Hang Up and incorporated it into his small business.
Two On Your Side is asking the entire community to sign the Pledge 2 Hang Up. Students are Barker High School in Niagara County were the first to do so.
If you didn't think texting while driving was a problem, wait until you see what happened in the road course we set up.
Under the supervision of a driving instructor, and in a safe environment, 2 On Your Side went driving with two teens to see the danger of texting while driving.
Students gathered in the gym to show off their pledge sheets and tell us why they made the promise to hang up!
Anti-texting pledge forms will be distributed to all young drivers applying for permits at auto bureaus across Erie County.
Sign the Pledge 2 Hang Up in order to eliminate distracted driving.
Visit the Pledge 2 Hang Up site
Our Pledge 2 Hang Up is only a few weeks old, but already several teachers, principals and students have signed up.
Investigators say Mary E. Kavanaugh was driving on Caledonia Road in the Town of Leicester when her vehicle drifted off the road and rolled over.
New York State Troopers have seen an increase on collisions on the I-90 between the Walden Galleria Mall and the entrance to the I-290.
Teenage drivers with a learner's permit - which can be obtained at age 16 -- will have to wait six months before they can schedule a road test for a license.
There are dozens of products available to buy or download that allow parents or employers to keep an eye on their teens or employees to make sure they aren't driving while distracted.
Gov. Paterson wants to raise it to a primary offense, allowing police to pull over a driver caught texting at the wheel.
Sen. Charles Schumer says nearly 100 teenagers have died in texting-while-driving accidents in the last five years in New York City and on Long Island.
Some local high school students are getting it and pledging not to text while behind the wheel or drink and drive.
Federal regulators have declared texting, emailing or using any cellphone simply too dangerous to be allowed for drivers anywhere.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does an annual survey that watches drivers' behavior at selected intersections.
State Police doled out 816 texting-while-driving tickets during a holiday blitz last week, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.
Motorists beware: State Police will be watching for your cell phones over the holiday.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says police officers wrote more than twice the number of texting-while-driving tickets in August than they had in previous months, after the state made the practice a primary offense.
The number of tickets issued since New York toughened its texting-while-driving ban in July has skyrocketed, up 43 percent through mid-September compared to all of 2010, statistics obtained by Gannett's Albany Bureau show.
Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Western New York Thursday for a ceremonial bill signing making texting while driving a primary offense in New York State.
The state Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill to toughen the state's texting-while-driving ban by making it is easier for police to issue tickets to offenders.
Currently, state law makes texting while driving a secondary offense, meaning police can only issue a ticket if a driver is pulled over for another offense, such as erratic driving.
The state's ban on texting behind the wheel moved one step closer to growing some teeth.
