The American Medical Association — already on record against text messaging while driving — has endorsed laws that ban all forms of handheld devices for those behind the wheel. Members called the use of handheld devices such as cell phones and...

Florida, one of the stumblebum states when it comes to distracted driving laws, finally appears to be waking up to the dangers of cell phoning and text messaging behind the wheel. Republican Gov. Charlie Crist signaled the Department of Highway Safety...

The nation’s toughest sanctions against driving and text messaging have been proposed in South Carolina. House Bill 4189 calls for fines of up to $2,500, two months in jail and a driver’s license suspension. And that’s for the first offense. A driver...

The New York Times continues its welcome crusade against texting and driving with a look at a British case in which one young woman was sent to prison for killing another young woman. Phillipa Curtis, 22, rear-ended Victoria McBryde’s broken-down...

In 2001, Rhode Island’s General Assembly passed Peter Kilmartin’s bill banning handheld cell phones. It was to be one of the first laws in the United States protecting citizens from drivers who were distracted by their cell phones. The governor...