distracted driving

The report says the state "needs improvement because of gaps in Advocates' recommended optimal laws."

The insurer is trying to reach teens, and those who influence them, by reaching out on social media with the help of some local celebrities.

A car crash in Brick seemingly defied gravity and left a vehicle sitting vertical up against a utility pole.

It is best to beaware of which towns are ready to come out guns blazing for the "U Drive. U Text. U Pay" mission.

Two Manahawkin women are doing okay after the driver had some trouble with a turn on Nautilus Drive and Riptide Avenue Tuesday causing her to hit a parked car.

A South Jersey man is in serious condition after a car sent him off of his motorized scooter in Whiting on Tuesday afternoon.

Two fire crews responded to separate car accidents Monday that only resulted in minor reported injuries.

There was only one car involved in a Wednesday afternoon accident near milepost 110.9 on the Garden State Parkway where a 30-year old woman had to be hospitalized with minor injuries.

A Keansburg woman is indicted Tuesday for allegedly being on her cell phone when she rear ended a driver, forcing his car to strike a pedestrian crossing a Hazlet street in September 2016.

Compulsive cell phone usage is not just dangerous. It's a cry for help.

Between 2010 and 2014 nearly 740 pedestrians were fatally wounded in car crashes in addition to over 22,000 injuries according to the NJ Division of Highway Traffic Safety. These stats are reason New Jersey is deemed a "focus" state by the Federal Highway Administration and brings to the front the public education campaign known as Street Smart NJ.

We have all heard a lot about distracted driving. But a new study suggests our brain may be distracted from a task by a sound or a vibration, even if we try to ignore it.