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Amtrak Accident Distracted Driving Distracted driving is a huge topic these days when talking about auto accidents Most of us are aware how dangerous texting while driving is and in fact more and more states are passing stricter laws which ticket those caught texting and driving In addition to texting and driving our multi-tasking society engages in a wide variety of distracted driving behaviors such as eating drinking talking on the phone changing radio stations searching for music on a phone fiddling with the GPS turning around to see what the children are doing talking to passengers looking to see what is happening on the side of the road and even putting on makeup and posting to social media Was Engineer Distracted in Washington Amtrak Collision Those who persist in doing many other things besides driving while driving will likely see the distracted laws continue to increase in severity But what about the increase in the number of train crashes over the past few years is distracted driving to blame for these accidents as well Authorities focusing on the recent fatal Amtrak crash near Tacoma
