A recent statistic may be hard to believe: Drugged driving is now a bigger threat to the safety of Tennessee drivers than drunk driving.The data, collected by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, indicates an 89 percent increase in drug-related fatal motor vehicle accidents...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic deaths rose by about 10 percent in the first half of this year. Americans are also driving more, but that 3.3 percent increase from last year does not account for everything.Nor is the increase...

Even Apple Inc. foresaw the dangers of distracted driving: In 2008 it filed for a patent for technology that locks out a driver's phone to prevent certain functions, such as texting.In the patent application, Apple expressed doubt that law enforcement would be able to...