April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Law enforcement agencies crossed the vale privation to punctual drivers that April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. 

In a 2024 California Statewide Public Opinion Survey, astir 74% of drivers indicated that their superior information interest was distracted driving owed to texting. 

Officials accidental drivers are not allowed nether existent instrumentality to clasp a telephone oregon physics communications instrumentality portion operating a vehicle, adjacent erstwhile stopped astatine a reddish light. 

Using a handheld compartment telephone portion driving is taxable to a fine. If a operator violates the hands-free instrumentality for a 2nd clip wrong 36 months of a erstwhile condemnation for the aforesaid offense, an further constituent volition beryllium added to their driving record. 

Funding for distracted driving enforcement is supported by a assistance from the California Office of Traffic Safety done the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.