Thursday, June 7, 2012

Teens will text while driving (but at least they wear seat belts)

Los Angeles Times
June 7, 2012

Kids these days! They heed your warnings to buckle up and to call for a ride if their lift home has been drinking. But then they go and text their BFF while driving to soccer practice after school. Efforts to keep them safe are indeed reducing injuries and death among American adolescents, a new study says. But there are new risks, some posed by new technologies, that we never thought to warn them about. Read more...