The senators cited a Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study that found that truck drivers who texted while driving were 23 times more likely to crash or get into a near-accident than undistracted drivers.
When he was vice-president in the 1990s he was involved in a near-fatal road accident which left him with slurred speech.
The funeral has been held for a teenager who was killed in an accident near Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.
The single-vehicle accident took place near Warren, in northeastern Ohio, on Sunday morning, according to Lt.
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An earlier seven-vehicle accident at Llandygai near Bangor closed the A4244 for a time, but the route has now reopened.
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Driving is completely routine -until we have a near-miss, or worse, get into an accident.
"I just can't stand this mess, " he remarked early this year when the state-owned Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. failed to prevent a serious accident at a nuclear waste-processing plant near Tokyo.
Ten years after the explosion, a CNN team visited Chernobyl to ascertain the long-term effects of radiation exposure for those living near Chernobyl during the accident, for cleanup workers or "liquidators, " or for those who continued to live in areas that were classified as polluted.
It was renamed Near-Shoemaker in 2000 after geologist Gene Shoemaker , who died in a car accident in 1997.
An accident near his Italian home in early 2012, where he re-broke his right leg, was also a setback, but Kubica has stuck doggedly to his rehabilitation program.
The body of the 62-year old congressman, who was killed in a skiing accident near Lake Tahoe Monday, arrived at a Palm Springs funeral home late Tuesday as mourners, including Bono's ex-wife Cher and their daughter Chastity Bono, assembled for memorial and funeral services.
And a 30-year-old man was seriously injured in an accident on an icy M18 near Doncaster, when his car collided with a road sign and overturned.
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The family of a two-year-old boy are in mourning after he died in a freak accident in Mayobridge near Newry, County Down, on Saturday.
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