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Tag: Texting

Crime and Justice

Ran stop sign, killed motorist, gets 10-day sentence

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2018, 7:08 AM Jul 5, 2018
18

It’s asking a lot to judge sentences handed in a courtroom at which those doing the judging aren’t present, but a sentence handed down in a texting and driving case in Chisago County is likely to stir the debate over how serious the system is on cracking down the practice. Read more →

Education

In anti-texting drill, Wis. school told students classmates were dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 1, 2016, 11:20 AM Nov 1, 2016
6

Nothing seems to be working when it comes to getting people to stop texting and driving so there’s at least a minimal level of understanding for the authorities in the Broadhead, Wis., school district — southwest of Milwaukee — who told students at the beginning of the school day last week that four of their friends were dead.
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Crime and Justice

Little punishment in Iowa when distracted drivers kill cyclists

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2016, 2:48 PM Jul 15, 2016
17

People who think the justice system doesn’t take the death of pedestrians at the hands of distracted drivers seriously enough have another piece of evidence to support their claim.
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Crime and Justice · Education

It takes two to text and drive

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2016, 8:34 AM Apr 29, 2016
15

A Wisconsin case illuminates the other half of the growing texting-while-driving problem: the people with whom the drivers are texting. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Video: Texting driver hits Hudson police car

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 4, 2016, 3:07 PM Apr 4, 2016
15

‘This accident could have been much, much worse,’ the police said. Both the officer and the texter survived. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Actress takes a stand against texting in the audience

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2015, 8:19 AM Jul 10, 2015
19

Theater-goers, what on earth is wrong with you? You buy tickets to a show, and then you spend part of it on your phone texting.
Who raised you? Read more →

Crime and Justice

Survey: People know about dangers of texting, but don’t care

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2014, 2:28 PM Nov 5, 2014
19

Public safety officials can probably cancel the PR campaign against texting and driving and concentrate instead on making drivers pay a stiff price for doing it, if a survey out today is any indication. Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Crooks on camera

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 24, 2013, 7:56 AM Sep 24, 2013
2

What New Jersey gets that Minnesota doesn’t, to be single with cancer, caution: texting ahead, the missing Minnesotans in Somalia, and why people really aren’t rebelling against Facebook over privacy. Read more →

Crime and Justice

The horrors of texting documented in film

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2013, 2:54 PM Aug 9, 2013
2

The campaigns to get people to stop watching their cellphones while they drive often seem like shoveling sand against the tide; nothing seems to be working to convince people there’s danger in it. So AT&T, Verizon, Spring, and T-Mobile commissioned Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker, to produce a documentary, featuring four tragedies: A paralyzed young Read more →

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