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Click It Or Ticket 2012: Agencies Reporting Results

Reported results from last year’s CIOT:

Hours: 27,379	DWI: 145	Safety Belt: 2,147
Child Safety Seat: 234	ITC: 893	DUI: 39
CMV: 63	HMV: 992	Stolen: 20
Felony: 189	Fugitive: 350	Uninsured: 1,115
Drug Arrests: 165	Drug Seizures: 94	Other Citations: 4,914
Other Arrests: 724	Media: 326	Community: 28

Congrats to the 2012 IDM Incentive Winners:

Impaired Driving Mobilization
Incentive Award $3,000

Agency	District
TAYLOR POLICE DEPT.	AUS
LOCKHART POLICE DEPT.	AUS
FLORENCE POLICE DEPT.	AUS
MARBLE FALLS POLICE DEPT.	AUS
PORTLAND POLICE DEPT.	CRP
BEEVILLE POLICE DEPT.	CRP
ARGYLE POLICE DEPT.	DAL
SAGINAW POLICE DEPT.	FTW
HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 8	HOU
ANGLETON POLICE DEPT.	HOU
KEMAH POLICE DEPT.	HOU
University of Texas of the Permian Basin	ODA
University of Texas Pan American Police Department	PHR
BANDERA CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE	SAT
UVALDE POLICE DEPT.	SAT
University of Texas at San Antonio Police Department	SAT
LOG CABIN POLICE DEPT.	TYL
KILGORE POLICE DEPT.	TYL
BELTON POLICE DEPT.	WAC
EL CAMPO POLICE DEPT.	YKM

Training Courses

The Law Enforcement Liaison Grant is proud to offer the Child Occupant Restraint Enforcement Course along with the Distracted Driving Course. Registration for the courses is ongoing and information on the courses is below.

Distracted Driving Course Information

Mission Statement

The primary mission of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Liaison (LEL) Support and Training Project is to promote traffic safety throughout the State of Texas. Work in a supportive role with the Texas Department of Transportation and provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies. To deliver education in the area of distracted driving to teens, adults and law enforcement personnel to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

Traffic Safety Newstories from around Texas

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In the News...

New national study: Fatal traffic crashes involving cellphones are substantially under-reported

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fatal cellphone-involved crashes are seriously underreported, according to an analysis of state and federal data released today by the National Safety Council, an advocacy group.

Push To End Teens' Distracted Driving Targets Parents, Peers

The statistics are grim: Highway crashes are the leading cause of death for young Americans. While such fatalities had declined in recent years, overall highway deaths were up last year.

Study: Teens who text and drive take even more risks

More than 4 in 10 teens admit to texting while driving, and those that do are more likely to engage in other risks while driving.

Highway Safety: 11 teens die every day due to texting while driving

(NECN) - Motor vehicle homicide is the leading cause of death for kids 16 to 19 years old. The Institute for Highway Safety reports 11 teens die every day due to texting while driving.

Will Ray LaHood's anti-distracted driving legacy endure?

Ray LaHood has seldom kept his opinions to himself. The country's U.S. Secretary of Transportation since 2008, LaHood early established a reputation for bluntness and rattling cages.

‘Orange Cones, No Phones’ Unveiled on I-95 Where Texting Remains ‘Vexing’ Problem

DALE CITY, Va. – What once worked in construction zones on the Capital Beltway is now in use on Intestate 95: Orange Cones, No Phones.

Texting-while-driving ban approved by Florida lawmakers, headed to Gov. Rick Scott

TALLAHASSEE — After two days of drama and five years of trying, a texting-while-driving ban is headed to Gov. Rick Scott's desk.

HSPH's Winsten aims to shift drivers' focus toward safety

Each day, an average of nine people are killed in the United States and more than 1,000 injured by drivers doing something other than driving.

House transportation committee backs bill banning social media while driving

Legislation banning the use of social media while driving and strengthening the state's push against distracted driving was approved by the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works Monday.

Distracted Driving

Sobering fact for the day: There are motorists among us who are driving “intoxicated” — essentially — without having had a drop of alcohol.

Distracted and inattentive driving enforcement throughout southern Minnesota

SOUTHERN MINNESOTA — Minnesota State Patrol will conduct extra enforcement on April 18, 2013, to reduce distracted driving. Distracted driving is a leading crash factor, and the Minn. State Patrol is urging motorists to pay attention behind the wheel.

Nearly 50 local motorists ticketed Wednesday in distracted driving crackdown

The California Highway Patrol's Riverside office and the sheriff's San Jacinto station each conducted enforcement operations Tuesday aimed at cracking down on drivers talking on mobile phones without a hands-free device.

Distracted driving isn’t all about phone use

RALEIGH – More than 50,000 North Carolinians are injured every year from distracted-driving accidents, and this month across the state and the nation the focus is on prevention.

Disconnects in the distracted-driving blame game

In 1930, former Massachusetts state senator George Parker tried to ban car radios because they were too distracting.

Rohnert Park distracted driving crackdown nets laptop computer user

Distracted driving isn't always about using a cellphone — Rohnert Park officers have stopped a driver who'd been working on his laptop computer on his lap, reported a Rohnert Park traffic sergeant Tuesday.

6 Tech Tools to Tackle Distracted Driving

Sending or receiving a text while driving distracts a person from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, which at 55 mph is the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field, blind.

PARENTS OF COLLEGE STUDENT WHO DIED IN TEXTING-WHILE-DRIVING CRASH RELEASE GRIM PHOTO OF HIS LAST, UNFINISHED TEXT

DENVER (AP) — Alexander Heit’s final text cut off in mid-sentence. Before he could send it, police say the 22-year-old University of Northern Colorado student drifted into oncoming traffic, jerked the steering wheel and went off the road, rolling his car.

New Pennsylvania law not yet putting a dent in texting while driving

Like many teenagers, Erica Cimato of Moon practically wears out her cell phone sending text messages -- more than 100 per day by her estimate.

Editorial: Protecting Missourians' right to die in traffic accidents

Thank your Missouri legislators for engaging the state in yet another embarrassing race to the bottom.

Houston Mayor Prepared To Discuss Local Texting While Driving Ban

While the Texas Legislature will make a second attempt to write a texting-while-driving ban into law, Houston Mayor Annise Parker this time doesn't want to hope for Gov. Rick Perry's support. The city has launched an awareness campaign, and Parker says she would consider a local ban on texting if the measure fails again in Austin.

Massachusetts teen convicted of homicide in texting-while-driving case

(CNN) -- A Massachusetts teen was convicted Wednesday of homicide as a result of texting while driving and will serve one year in prison.

Officials: Number one source for distracted drivers is cell phone usage

Officials have declared cell phones as the number one source behind distracted drivers.

Senate rejects texting while driving amendment

The Arizona Senate has rejected an effort to create a statewide ban on texting while driving by amending an existing House bill.

April brings National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and not a moment too soon

Americans continue to use electronic devices while driving, despite warnings that it causes their own driving to deteriorate and can lead to crashes, injuries and even death.

California court: Hands on the wheel, not on your maps app

Drivers who use mapping software on their phones to find out where they're going may not be paying enough heed to where they're going.

Laws against driving and cellphone use aren't working, study finds

It seems like an epidemic: Drivers talking and texting. Now federal regulators have put a number to the dangerous habit.

Texting in traffic: Adults worse than teens

Forget teenagers. Adults are the biggest texting-while-driving problem in the USA. What's worse — they know it's wrong.

Distracted Driving

A new report from the National Safety Council (NSC) estimates that 24 percent of all motor vehicle crashes involve cell phone