My friend Douglas Wiken reminds us how dangerous South Dakota's highways are for pedestrians. Nationwide, pedestrian deaths are increasing just a little: In 1975, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents across the US. By 2009, the figure…
Posts tagged as “cell phones”
Aberdeen is getting on the stick and joining Vermillion, Mitchell, Huron, Watertown, Brookings, and Sioux Falls in banning texting while driving. Rapid City, however, is not. City Attorney Joel Landeen said he has not seen much interest in a texting…
The City of Brookings has enacted the latest local texting ban in South Dakota. Ordinance 31-12 took effect last Monday, but Brookings police apparently needed a few more days of training before starting to enforce the texting ban on Friday.…
We don't have a statewide ban on texting and driving in the legislative hopper yet, but we do have a bill to make life harder for commercial drivers who text behind the wheel. With Senate Bill 44, the Department of…
The undercard to David Owen's Chamber of Commerce propaganda Tuesday was Senator Mike Vehle's (R-20/Mitchell) declaration that he'll support a statewide ban on texting and driving: [Owen] said he didn’t foresee texting and driving coming back to the Legislature, but…
Full disclosure: I'm glued to my computer screen right now. My wife is on her laptop My six-year-old is running back and forth across the apartment with a large scarf—I'm a bird! ...Now I have a cape!" No thunk yet,…
The City of Sioux Falls has passed an ordinance making texting while driving a primary offense punishable by a $200 fine. Cue clueless screaming: this is so stupid..Congrats idiots of making roads twice as dangerous..now people are going to try…