Bosses pressed to target distracted driving employees
July 5, 2012
Distracted drivers, responsible for some 30 percent of all crashes, beware: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is stepping up his bid to get you to turn off that cellular phone and drop the nose hair clippers.
After putting carmakers on notice to skip the fancy doodads and getting states to pass laws banning cellphone use in cars, LaHood, considered the most effective DOT boss ever, has finally won the backing of some states to count distracted driving details in crash reports just like drunk driving.
In a tweet Thursday he heralded a new report used nationwide to track crashes that included distracted driver information such as whether drivers were gabbing on the phone or texting. “Collecting consistent information about motor vehicle crashes is essential to improving road safety,” he tweeted.
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