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U.S. DOT and Safety Partners Kickoff Distracted Driving Awareness Month

April 6, 2016 By CollisionWeek Editor

Auto insurance industry joins call for action on unsafe driving behaviors as accident frequency increases over the past two years.

The United States (U.S.) Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), California Highway Patrol (CHP), the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), and Impact Teen Drivers (ITD) joined together in California yesterday for the national kickoff of Distracted Driving Awareness Month. In 2014, 3,179 people were killed and an additional 431,000 were injured in collisions involving distracted drivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Accident Frequency, Distracted Driving, NHTSA, Property Casualty Insurance, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America

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