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A Good New Law: Vision Tests For Older Folks
Keep driving as long as you want, but let's make sure you can see, OK? Massachusetts is considering testing drivers over 75 for coginitive and physical abilities.
View ArticleMore Teen Vid: Winners of DMV Distracted Driving Contest
It doesn't take long to watch these. The DMV says: Eleven teams of high school students were culled to be finalists from the nearly 80 teams submitting entries for the Department of Motor Vehicles...
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Globe: Tougher Driving Laws Cut Fatal Teen Accident Rate
Massachusetts reports a sharp drop in the number of fatal accidents for teenagers as well as the number of crashes since the state tightened licensing requirements. Connecticut has embarked upon a...
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Hollister: Why Are GPS Devices OK When Texting is Illegal?
Lawyer, dad and teen-driving blogger Tim Hollister has an interesting post about how state law bans texting while driving but it's perfectly fine to be distracted by the GPS device. Hollister writes:...
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Driving Is A Privilege, Not a Right
So a guy who gets his license yanked 10 times shouldn't be on the road, right? Today's newspaper column.
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Tim Hollister On His Son & A Day That Changed Everything
I still have days when I disbelieve that 12/2/06 really happened. Read on.
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Who Drives Alone? We All Do!
Percent of people who drive to work alone, according to new Census estimates. The darker the color the higher the percentage of lonely drivers.
View ArticleTeenagers At The Wheel: Top 10 Distracted Driving Videos
The Travelers will give $1,000 to the first high school whose video gets 5,000 or more views. All 10 student videos from the 2011 Department of Motor Vehicles "From the Driver's Seat to the Director's...
View ArticleAnd The Winning Video For Distracted Driving Is ...
East Lyme High School, for a video directed by Austin Begin:
View ArticleYo Texas Wannabes! Texting, Driving OK In Lone Star State
A friend emails this update from Texas, where future Republican savior Rick Perry had this to say about texting and driving: Among those was House Bill 242, which would have enacted a statewide ban on...
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Teen Drivers: Fewer Behind Wheel, Not So Many Crashes
Three years after toughening state laws, there are fewer 16- and 17-year-old drivers out there and the number of accidents has declined, the state Department of Motor Vehicles says in a must-read...
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Teenage Driving Decline
Is it possible that the car is a fading icon for teenagers?New figures from the state Department of Motor Vehicles suggest that getting that first license, a teenage rite of passage for generations,...
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Tougher Laws Prevent Crashes For Younger, Not Older Teens
It turns out that 18-year-old drivers, who can get a license without all the rules required of 16- and 17-year-olds, might also be a problem. Here's a provocative finding in a study published in the...
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Northeast Parents Worry More About Teen Driving
Another nail in the coffin of the neurotic Northeasterner. From a recent Allstate survey of parents that found moms and dads in the Northeast can't relax when their kids are out driving: Parents in...
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