{"id":122,"date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garmerprather.lawblogger.net\/blog\/cellphones-and-distracted-driving-accidents\/"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:49","slug":"cellphones-and-distracted-driving-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/cellphones-and-distracted-driving-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphones and distracted driving accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in the number of distracted driving accidents in Kentucky and across the country has law enforcement agencies and road safety advocates alarmed. Efforts to warn Americans about the dangers of using electronic devices while behind the wheel have failed to make much of an impression, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked cellphone makers to include features that restrict what drivers are able to do with their devices. <\/p>\n<p>The NHTSA wants the companies to produce cellphones that can be paired with modern automobiles or put into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overdriveonline.com\/driver-mode-proposed-by-nhtsa-to-lock-certain-cell-phone-features-while-driving\/?utm_source=daily&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=12-07-2016&#038;utm_campaign=Overdrive&#038;ust_id=acc589c426188e3c3d786646bb542c32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">driver mode<\/a> when pairing is not possible. If the manufacturers comply with the request, the screens on paired devices would only be able to display notifications from emergency services. The proposed driver mode would allow mapping services to work as normal while preventing text messages, photographs and videos from being displayed. <\/p>\n<p>NHTSA is hoping that cellphone manufacturers will welcome the opportunity to be part of the solution to a growing and dangerous problem. According to NHTSA figures, distracted driving car and truck accidents claimed the lives of about 10 percent of the 35,092 Americans who died on the nation&#8217;s roads in 2015. Members of the public have until Feb. 3 to submit comments about the proposed measures. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/cellphones-and-distracted-driving-accidents\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Cellphones and distracted driving accidents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in the number of distracted driving accidents in Kentucky and across the country has law enforcement agencies and road safety advocates alarmed. Efforts to warn Americans about the dangers of using electronic devices while behind the wheel have failed to make much of an impression, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked cellphone makers to include features that restrict what drivers are able to do with their devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trucking-accidents","tag-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cellphones and distracted driving accidents &#8212; Kentucky Injury Law News &#8212; January 5, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The rise in the number of distracted driving accidents in Kentucky and across the country has law enforcement agencies and ... truck accidents\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/cellphones-and-distracted-driving-accidents\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cellphones and distracted driving accidents &#8212; 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