U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Lowest Level Of Annual Traffic Fatalities In More Than Six Decades Updated 2010 FARS data includes new measure of ‘distraction-affected’ fatalities; national attitude survey offers additional insight into problem of distracted driving WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced updated 2010 fatality and injury data showing that …
Category Archive: Safety
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Nov 01
Research Reveals Cost of in-car Laptop Use by Police
Typically, Distracted Driving campaigns are aimed at young drivers and/or the problems of texting and cellphone use. At Blank-IT, our focus is on the dangers of laptop & computer use by drivers, usage that presents ALL of the factors that contribute most to driver distraction (visual, cognitive and physical). University researchers in Minnesota have conducted a …
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Aug 18
The Cost of Distracted Driving
We came across a very interesting post on the CarTalk.com blog, which describes an attempt to assign a financial value to the damage caused by Distracted Driving related accidents. The author uses two sets of figures for costing (one from the National Safety Council and another set from the Federal Highway Administration – dating back to …
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Aug 15
Distracted Driving and Workers Compensation – An Attorney Speaks
The second video released by our friends at Zoomsafer features an attorney discussing Distracted Driving in relation to Workers Compensation. Together with the previously posted clip, these videos demonstrate the importance of creating and enforcing effective Distracted Driving policies. The second of these videos is embedded below – apologies for the poor sound quality. Blank-IT …
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May 23
Employers Not Enforcing Distracted Driving Policies
A recent survey conducted by our friends at ZoomSafer reveals some interesting figures about business attitudes towards Distracted Driving and employer liability. The survey covered 500 business managers in North America and was designed to record corporate attitudes and best practices in this area. The results show that there is an increased awareness of the distracted driving …
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