More than 300 law enforcement agencies throughout Minnesota will be conducting extra distracted driving patrols beginning Monday, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety announced in a press release. The extra enforcement period will run from April 9 through April 22 and will be conducted all throughout the state, from the Twin Cities to Duluth and […]
More Than 1,000 Drivers Ticketed During Distracted Driving Crackdown
If you follow our blog at all, odds are you were aware of the recent distracted driving crackdown that took place during a two-week stretch in April. Hopefully you listened to our warning and were able to avoid a citation, but the recently released statistics show that a number of drivers were caught during the […]
Distracted Driving – Just How Risky Is It?
We just finished a distracted driving crackdown here in Minnesota, and while the total citation numbers have not yet been released, the goal of the enforcement was to open people’s eyes up to the dangers of distracted driving. You might think that driving doesn’t require your full attention, but that’s just simply not true. Even […]
Driving in Dakota County? Put The Cell Phone Down
If you’re driving through Dakota County today or in the coming weeks, you’ll want to put the cell phone and other distractions down. That’s because local police will be conducting a distracted driving crackdown, and they won’t be handing out warnings. This crackdown is a little different than some of the campaigns that police have […]
Distracted Driving Deaths Spike in Minnesota in 2015
We mentioned yesterday that violent crime spiked in Minnesota in 2015, but new data suggests that distracted driving deaths also experienced an uptick last year. According to the latest data from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, distracted driving played a role in 74 traffic deaths last year, a 21 percent increase from 2014. Not […]
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