{"id":213667,"date":"2012-09-19T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=213667"},"modified":"2012-09-20T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:18:03","slug":"mayor-others-discourage-texting-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=213667","title":{"rendered":"Mayor, Others Discourage Texting while Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=213668\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-213668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/thumb_Barbara-Bass-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Barbara-Bass-2\" width=\"93\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-213668\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass hosted a news conference Wednesday in cooperation with the Tyler Police Department and AT&#038;T encouraging Tyler residents not to text and drive. The event marked \u201cTexting and Driving \u2013 It Can Wait\u201d Day in the city. Bass says public safety, including the reduction of fatalities and injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents, are goals shared by the City of Tyler. <\/p>\n<p>According to city press materials, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) estimate that nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near crashes involve some form of driver inattention. NHTSA and VTTI estimate that driver distraction is a factor in approximately 4.78 million crashes, resulting in two million injuries, more than 34,000 fatalities, and as much as $184 billion in economic damages annually. VTTI found that truck drivers face a crash risk or near crash risk 23 times greater when texting than when not texting.<\/p>\n<p>The American Media Association called text messaging while driving \u201ca public health risk,\u201d citing a study that found text messaging while driving causes a 400 percent increase in time spent with eyes off the road. AT&#038;T has launched a campaign to raise public awareness about the risks of texting and driving and remind all wireless consumers, especially youth, that text messages can, and should, wait until after driving, according to city officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass hosted a news conference Wednesday in cooperation with the Tyler Police Department and AT&#038;T encouraging Tyler residents not to text and drive. The event marked \u201cTexting and Driving \u2013 It Can Wait\u201d Day in the city. Bass says public safety, including the reduction of fatalities and injuries resulting from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=213667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mayor, Others Discourage Texting while Driving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 17:52:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213667"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213942,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213667\/revisions\/213942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}