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Remember Alex Brown Foundation: 5 Facts About Texting While Driving

On Sunday's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," Justin Bieber and Emma Roberts made special appearances to support the Remember Alex Brown Foundation, which was established in honor of a 17-year-old Texas girl who died in a texting-while-driving accident. While the show provided Alex Brown's family with a newly remodeled...

Opinion: Putting a Face on Distracted Driving's Heavy Toll [VIDEO]

(Nov. 16) -- On this page, we've published several op-eds on the huge toll distracted driving is taking on the country's highways and byways. Traffic safety expert Leonard Evans, for example, noted that "driving while distracted is not like drunk driving -- it is far worse." Drunk drivers tend be on the road at night,...

Campaign Aims to Cut Distracted Driving Crashes

(Nov. 16) -- The federal government is putting the faces of deaths from distracted driving crashes on display, hoping a new online video campaign will scare people straight. The Department of Transportation released three videos today in which a mother, a daughter and a father describe the loss of a relative killed in a...

Study: Texting and Driving Killed at Least 16,000 in US

(Sept. 27) -- Sending text messages while driving was the culprit in the deaths of an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007. Even more sobering, researchers warn that fatalities have shot up significantly since 2005. An analysis of federal data on road fatalities, published this week in the American Journal of Public...

Opinion: A Global Call to End Distracted Driving

(May 19) -- When we think of the world's leading causes of death -- diabetes or HIV/AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis -- it's easy to forget that another deadly, but entirely avoidable, epidemic is quickly spreading. Road crashes claim 1.3 million lives each year, the equivalent of one death every 30 seconds. The World Health...