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  • Click play to watch the report from Action News
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DUI, alcohol, driving, healthcheck
  • Delaware officials say officers issued 1,010 citations during the annual "Click It or Ticket" campaign last month.
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delaware, police, driving, local/state
  • A Berks County tour bus driver is out of a job after being caught on camera apparently looking at his phone while driving.
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berks county, pennsylvania, driving, local/state
  • Action News
  • A New Mexico man faces multiple charges after police say he was having sex with a woman while driving drunk and crashed, ejecting the woman from the vehicle.
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new mexico, accident, DUI, driving, sex, national/world
  • Aspen city council members are considering a 14 mph speed limit in a residential area of the Colorado mountain town in attempt to get the attention of drivers and have them slow down.
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colorado, automobiles, driving, bizarre bazaar
  • It's a driving lesson that went awry in more ways than one.
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pennsylvania, automobiles, driving, bizarre bazaar
  • The Philadelphia metropolitan region leads the state for the number of texting-while-driving citations written during the first six months of Pennsylvania's new law.
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philadelphia, pennsylvania, texting, driving, local/state
  • It's never a good time for a drunken driver to smash into a bakery, but it's an even bigger problem when it happens just before Thanksgiving.
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pennsylvania, pittsburgh, automobiles, alcohol, DUI, driving, dumb criminals, bizarre bazaar
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News at noon
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driving, cleveland, ohio, national/world
  • A woman sentenced to stand at the curb with an embarrassing sign for driving on the sidewalk past a stopped school bus has served out the second half of her two-hour punishment.
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driving, cleveland, ohio, national/world
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News at 5:30 p.m.
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pennsylvania, driving, harrisburg, pa turnpike, local/state
  • Jack Wagner sounded an alarm over the rising debt piling onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
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pennsylvania, driving, harrisburg, pa turnpike, local/state
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News at 5:00 p.m.
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delaware, driving, cell phones, local/state
  • The state of Delaware is using a $900,000 federal grant to crack down on drivers who use a cellphone while behind the wheel.
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delaware, driving, cell phones, local/state
  • The Supreme Court will decide when law enforcement officers must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect.
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DUI, driving, supreme court, national/world
  • NJ drivers license photos
  • A lot of folks like to smile when they get their driver's license photo taken. But officials are asking folks to tone it down.
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new jersey, driving, mercer county, local/state, nora muchanic
  • NJ drivers license photos
  • Click play to watch Nora Muchanic's report from Action News at 5:30 p.m.
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new jersey, driving, mercer county, local/state
  • A couple who each lost a leg when their motorcycle was struck by a teenager who was driving and texting in New Jersey have settled their lawsuit against him for $500,000.
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new jersey, accident, texting, driving, local/state
  • A New Jersey man accused of drunken driving six times over six weeks is losing his license for 33 years.
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DUI, driving, new jersey, local/state
  • Young drivers in New Jersey will have to continue displaying a red decal on their license plates.
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driving, new jersey, local/state
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News
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camden county, new jersey, cherry hill, alcohol, driving, DUI, local/state
  • Two people are facing DWI charges after fleeing from an off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper in Cherry Hill.
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new jersey, cherry hill, camden county, alcohol, driving, DUI, local/state
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News
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camden county, new jersey, cherry hill, alcohol, driving, DUI, local/state
  • From talking on the phone to texting behind the wheel, sometimes the biggest dangers on the road are inside the car.
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texting, driving, philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware, local/state, amy buckman
  • Daniel Bowley, left, hugs his sister after Aaron Deveau, 18, seated at right, was found guilty in Haverhill District Court in Haverhill, Mass., Wednesday, June 6, 2012, on charges of motor vehicle homicide while texting. Authorities said the then-17-year-old Deveau was texting when he crossed the center line of a Haverhill street on Feb. 20, 2011 and crashed into a vehicle driven by Daniels father, Donald Bowley, of Danville, N.H., who died 18 days later in the hospital. (AP Photo/Eagle Tribune, Tim Jean, Pool)
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texting, massachusetts, driving, national/world
  • A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to spend a year in jail for a fatal traffic accident that happened while he was texting.
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massachusetts, driving, texting, national/world
  • Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of deaths among teens in the United States.
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consumer reports, driving, teens, accident, consumer news, erin o'hearn
  • Action News
  • A teenage driver in Connecticut is under arrest after authorities said the distraction of a handheld cellphone caused her to fatally hit a 44-year-old jogger. The victim's father blames his death on "stupidity."
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connecticut, driving, national/world
  • The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether young drivers need to display red decals on their license plates.
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new jersey, teens, driving, local/state
  • Action News
  • An Indiana man accused of driving three blocks with four children strapped to the hood of his car was being held in jail Tuesday on charges of drunken driving and neglect, police said.
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indiana, driving, DUI, children, national/world
  • Action News
  • Police in Ogden, Utah, say an 8-year-old boy took his 5-year-old sister on a drive in the middle of the night and crashed the family minivan.
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utah, children, driving, national/world
  • Action News
  • Safety regulators are urging carmakers to design dashboard technology like text-messaging and Internet browsing so that it will be automatically disabled when a vehicle is in motion.
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washington, d.c., driving, national/world
  • Former Miss USA Rima Fakih has made an initial appearance in a Detroit-area courtroom in a drunken driving case.
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DUI, michigan, driving, entertainment
  • As millions of Americans prepare to ring in the New Year, it is important to remember the safety precautions drivers should take during this festive season.
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philadelphia, pennsylvania, driving, DUI, holidays, local/state
  • New requirements and restrictions went into effect Tuesday for teenage drivers in Pennsylvania, including the number of passengers they can carry who aren't immediate family members.
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pennsylvania, teens, driving, local/state
  • Texting, emailing or using a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed anywhere, investigators said Tuesday.
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texting, cell phones, driving, national/world
  • Texting while driving
  • Click play to watch Walter Perez's report
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texting, cell phones, driving, local/state
  • FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo, a rescue worker is seen at the scene of an accident involving two school buses, a tractor-trailer and another passenger vehicle, near Gray Summit, Mo. Federal safety investigators say a 19-year-old driver was texting at the time his pickup truck, two school buses and other vehicles collided in a deadly pileup on an interstate highway in Missouri last year. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released the information Monday.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
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driving, texting, cell phones, local/state
  • It's not the shirt a DWI suspect wants to be wearing.
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new york, alcohol, driving, DUI, dumb criminals, bizarre bazaar
  • Pennsylvania is getting set to join more than 30 other states that ban all motorists from texting while driving.
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cell phones, driving, gov. tom corbett, traffic
  • Pennsylvania is getting set to join more than 30 other states that ban all motorists from texting while driving.
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cell phones, driving, gov. tom corbett, traffic
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  • Do you think a "no texting while driving" law will make Pa. roads noticably safer?
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6at4, poll, cell phones, driving, gov. tom corbett, 6abc action news at 4
  • Motor vehicle crashes are the #1 killer of teenagers, they are the leading cause of death.
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teens, driving, philadelphia, pennsylvania, local/state
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texting, pennsylvania, montgomery county, driving, teens, local/state
  • Students from Jenkintown High School volunteered to demonstrate the dangers of distracted driving.
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pennsylvania, montgomery county, texting, driving, teens, local/state, katherine scott
  • Action News
  • A Grand Junction woman was cited after witnesses reported seeing her 9-year-old daughter driving her across town at least twice last week with the mother and her 10-month-old child as passengers.
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colorado, children, driving, national/world
  • An Oregon man pressed his luck one too many times and spent the night in a Nebraska detox cell after twice mistaking a police station for a casino and asking authorities for blackjack chips.
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nebraska, alcohol, dumb criminals, driving, bizarre bazaar
  • State police say they're continuing to investigate a crash in which a female driver without pants tried to run away, leaving her 7-year-old daughter in the back seat.
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pennsylvania, driving, automobiles, bizarre bazaar
  • A Mississippi man who grew up in Massachusetts goes to great lengths for a good pizza.
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massachusetts, driving, food, bizarre bazaar
  • Police say a western Pennsylvania woman endangered her 6-year-old niece by having the girl back the woman's car out of a tight parking spot, wrecking two other parked cars in the process.
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pennsylvania, automobiles, children, driving, bizarre bazaar