texting while driving

April is Distracted Driver Awareness Month in New Jersey, part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's 'UDrive. UText. UPay.' campaign. But being 'distracted' is so much more than just texting while driving.

Opening a navigation app and entering a password is now illegal in NJ

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.

How enraged do you get when you see someone on the road drifting in and out of lanes or not paying attention because they're on their phone? Imagine that driver is behind the wheel of a bus with your child on it.

A new distracted driving study by Plymouth Rock Assurance finds the number of New Jersey drivers who park their cars before texting has doubled over the last year.

Imagine getting paid to be a safer driver. A new app is making it happen -- and you can get it for free!

We all know that texting while driving is dangerous and illegal, and so many now wait until they are stopped at a light to respond to a text. You might want to hold on...that could soon be illegal too.

A new appeals court ruling today in New Jersey may make you pause before you send your next text, whether you're behind the wheel or not.

It's no secret that texting and talking while driving is dangerous, but a new Plymouth Rock Assurance survey finds that many drivers in New Jersey admit to shaving, applying makeup and brushing or combing their hair while behind the wheel.

If you're one of those people who is still talking and/or texting on your hand-held cell phone while driving, you could soon be paying dramatically higher fines and you might lose your driver's license for a while too.

If you're one of those people, who still ignores the law against talking and texting on a hand-held cell phone while driving, you could soon be facing dramatically increased fines and possible loss of license.

Teen drivers are still texting behind the wheel when they're by themselves, but a new study says having friends in the car significantly reduces the dangerous habit.