Ordinary Americans doing extraordinary work in the call to end distracted driving

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I wish it weren’t so, but the numbers are compelling; this is a very real and very dangerous problem. In the Syracuse, NY, area, our pilot enforcement project cited 2,300 drivers texting or using a hand-held cell phone during the first 10 days alone. Our Hartford, CT, pilot reported similar numbers. Those are just two communities. Multiply that out across the country, and the math is simply staggering.

Thankfully, ordinary Americans are working extraordinarily hard, really putting their hearts into personal efforts to help stop this deadly epidemic.

Kari Galassi and Jodi Brubaker of Hinsdale, Illinois, are two moms who saw the problem and began selling a tan-colored car window sign with “Get off the phone” over a marked out cell
phone image. “It always irritated me,” Brubaker said, “that you could see so many drivers paying more attention to their phones than the road.”

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https://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/05/ordinary-americans-doing-extraordinary-work-in-the-call-to-end-distracted-driving.htmloldId.20100513135707732