Monday,  April 7, 2014 • Vol. 16--No. 263 • 4 of 29

U Drive. U Text. U Pay. National Texting Enforcement Campaign

• To kick-off April 2014 National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the U.S. Department of Transportation is launching its first-ever national advertising campaign and law enforcement crackdown to combat distracted driving - U Drive. U Text. U Pay. According to DOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,328 people were killed and an estimated 421,000 were injured in distraction-affected crashes in 2012.
• At a news conference in Washington D.C., NHTSA unveiled its advertisements,

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