Pew study: Nearly 50% US teenagers have used cellphone while driving

Release Date 17 Nov, 2009 in TopNews United States

US teens report 'frightening' levels of texting while driving Washington Post - Ashley Halsey III - 17 Nov, 2009 A graphic British public service video that portrays a fatal accident caused by a texting teenage driver has been the talk of Facebook ...
	One-fourth of teen drivers text behind the wheel AFP - 17 Nov, 2009 WASHINGTON �" One-fourth of US teenagers aged 16 and 17 have sent text messages while driving and over 40 percent have had a cellphone conversation while ...
One in three texting teens has texted while driving San Francisco Chronicle - 17 Nov, 2009 According to a new Pew Research Center study on text messaging, 34 percent of all texting teens ages ages 16-17 have texted while driving. ...
Half of teens say they've used cellphone while driving USA Today - Nanci Hellmich - 17 Nov, 2009 About half of teens ages 16 and 17 who have cellphones say they have talked on the phone while driving, and about a third of ...
	Teen texting and driving common: US study CBC.ca - 17 Nov, 2009 Just over 30 per cent of texting teens polled by the Pew Research Center say they have texted while driving. (iStock) About a third of texting teens in the ...
A third of teens say they've texted while driving msnbc.com - Suzanne Choney - 17 Nov, 2009 A third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when ...
Texting while driving Binghamton University Pipe Dream - Janan Morgul - 17 Nov, 2009 You're driving down Vestal Parkway to campus and you feel the urge to respond to the constant vibrating of your phone. It may be your mom checking up on you ...
Drop that phone Tallahassee Democrat - 17 Nov, 2009 Admit it, you've probably sent text messages, or at least dialed a cell phone, while driving. There is only one thing you should be looking at while you're ...
	Pew study: Nearly 50% US teenagers have used cellphone while driving TopNews United States - Sundeep Matharu - 17 Nov, 2009 Going by the findings of a study the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, nearly 50 percent of cellphone-owning US teenagers, ...
26% of teens texting while driving, US survey finds Pioneer Press - Mara H. Gottfried - 17 Nov, 2009 Some of the youngest drivers in the United States have challenges beyond being new to driving: More than a quarter �" 26 percent �" of ...
Should the state ban texting while driving? Daily American Online - Rick Kazmer - 17 Nov, 2009 Don't drink and drive, wear your seat belt, don't do drugs �" are few examples of rules that most people agree are good to follow. ...
Teen text-driving fatality rate high United Press International - 17 Nov, 2009 WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Twenty-five percent of US adolescents admit texting while driving and say their parents do it, too, a phone survey released ...
	Texting while driving: Bad for Tri-Met, bad for teens OregonLive.com - Betsy Hammond - 17 Nov, 2009 I was checking out the reaction to Joseph Rose's startling Sunday news story about how often Tri-Met riders get freaked out ...
75 percent of teens have a cell phone, and more than half of them say they ... Orlando Sentinel - 17 Nov, 2009 40 percent say they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone "in a way that put themselves or others in danger." 48 percent of teens say they ...
Study shows both teens and parents guilty of texting while driving WTOP - 17 Nov, 2009 WASHINGTON - A study released Monday may remind you and your teenager to keep their eyes on the road. One in four teenage drivers are texting while behind ...
	Teens Texting While Driving in Alarming Numbers [STUDY] Mashable (blog) - Jennifer Van Grove - 17 Nov, 2009 The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just published the results of a study on distracted driving behavior amongst teenagers which shows that teens ...
Survey: More than one-quarter of teens ages 16 & 17 text while driving Pioneer Press - Mara H. Gottfried - 17 Nov, 2009 Some of the youngest drivers in the United States have challenges beyond being new to driving: 26 percent of 16- and 17-year-olds send ...
Report: Many teens text, phone while driving News & Observer - Bruce Siceloff - 17 Nov, 2009 One out of every four American teens aged 16 or 17 have texted while driving, and more than 40 percent have talked on the phone while driving, according to ...
New Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project: Teens and Distracted Driving ResourceShelf (blog) - 17 Nov, 2009 We wonder if Pew Internet is going to do the same type of study on adults? We also wonder if adults would admit to texting while driving and if they did, ...
Patients Tap Social Networking Web Sites for Health Information iHealthBeat - 17 Nov, 2009 Patients increasingly are turning to social networking sites to interact with fellow patients and medical experts, npr's "Morning Edition" reports. ...
	Teens and Distracted Driving Pew Research Center - 17 Nov, 2009 Over the summer of 2009, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey of 800 teens ages 12-17 asking about their ...
One in three teens admit to texting while driving The Hill - Kim Hart - 17 Nov, 2009 I'm certainly guilty of it. And listening to the hearings held by Congress on the topic over the past few weeks, ...
Free driving safety camp for teens in Homestead Sun-Sentinel.com - 17 Nov, 2009 By Rachel Hatzipanagos, Sun Sentinel Between texting and talking, teen drivers have plenty to distract them when they are on the road with cell phones in ...
The New Information Ecology The Pew Internet and American Life Project - Lee Rainie - 17 Nov, 2009 In "The new information ecology," he summarizes recent trends in Internet use, cell phone use and how information seekers come in different ...
Keeping hands on the wheel Regina Leader-Post - Lisa Goudy - ‎Nov 16, 2009‎ By Lisa Goudy, The Leader-postnovember 15, 2009 11:00 PM When I heard that the Saskatchewan government was debating whether or not texting should be banned ...
Letters: Truckers should not be texting while driving Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Dustin T. Murphy - ‎Nov 16, 2009‎ Truck drivers shouldn't text when they drive, and trucking companies should enforce policies that prohibit their drivers from texting while driving. ...
	Under the influence Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Rick Foster - ‎Nov 15, 2009‎ Hand-held cell phones and other technology has already been banned in several states. (Staff photo illustration by Martin ...
Crash text dummies ChicagoNow (blog) - ‎Nov 15, 2009‎ After riding shotgun with her text-happy former roommate, Jinny Yi couldn't take it anymore. "She would be texting while driving with her knees," said Yi, ...
	Legislation could target texting drivers Tampa Tribune - Jasmina Meyer - ‎Nov 15, 2009‎ By BRAD DICKERSON SEBRING - Texting is unquestionably one of the most popular forms of communication in the 21st century. One of most popular topics among ...
Texting, talking bans popular this year The Northwest Florida Daily News - John Kennedy - ‎Nov 15, 2009‎ TALLAHASSEE �" Measures banning motorists from text-messaging and using cell phones are becoming one of the hot-test topics this fall for Florida lawmakers ...