Despite years of public awareness campaigns, evolving traffic laws, and increasingly advanced vehicle safety features, distracted driving remains a persistent and growing problem in 2025. Tools like ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The new year will bring more than a dozen new laws to Colorado, from restrictions on texting while driving to car-seat age limits and new caps on medical ...

INDIANAPOLIS | Text messaging for some Hoosiers may get very expensive starting Friday when a new state law banning texting while driving takes effect. Under the law, a motorist caught by police ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Texting while driving, smoking in public and cooking with artery-clogging trans fats will be that much harder under a bevy of state laws set to take effect Friday. Faced with huge ...

Louisiana’s expanded hands-free driving law, known as the “touch law,” is now fully enforced after a grace period ended ...

DES MOINES - Texting while driving has been illegal in Iowa since last summer, but the law has proven to be both difficult and a bother to enforce. In March 2010, the Legislature passed the law that ...

COLUMBIA - South Carolina is now the 49th state to ban texting while driving. A statewide ban on writing, sending or reading a text while driving took effect Monday when Gov. Nikki Haley signed the ...

Although Missouri has had a texting-while-driving ban for all drivers for more than a year, police will begin issuing citations for violating the prohibition beginning on Jan. 1. The end of a grace ...

Starting next month, Pennsylvania drivers need to put down their cellphone and most electronic devices while driving or risk a $50 ticket. Pennsylvania law has barred drivers from reading, writing or ...