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One more link: this

Leah Shaffer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:33:48 -0500

One more link: this blog
features a photo of a teen texting while driving. It's a scary image and a scary thought to imagine how many people are getting in the habit of doing this.

The issue of how much cell

Leah Shaffer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:28:20 -0500

The issue of how much cell phones and texting factor into driver distraction has been in the news lately. Click on the following links for features that have run in the New York Times and Slate about the issue.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/series/driven_to_distracti...

http://www.slate.com/id/2223277/

Raksha Walk returns to focus on keeping drivers distraction-free

Leah Shaffer — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:48:44 -0500

Without a second thought, many today do a juggling act while driving; either gabbing on a cell phone when hitting the road, eating a meal; applying makeup; tinkering with an iPod ... the list goes on.

There's a world of distractions for drivers out there and each one is a sad reminder to the Dixit family of who they have lost. Shreya Dixit, a college student from Eden Prairie, was killed in November 2007 while a passenger on a trip back from her university. The driver of her vehicle was momentarily distracted, in this case searching for a napkin, and lost control of the vehicle.