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This week is National Teen Driver Safety week. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is using their 5 to Drive campaign to educate teens and parents on the biggest dangers facing teen drivers: texting, speeding, impaired driving, distracted driving, and failure to buckle up.  More Teen Deaths Caused by Car Accidents Than Anything Else…

The popularity of ride sharing services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar left open to question if insurance would cover passengers using the service if the car was involved in an accident. In response, The Illinois Legislature passed the Transportation Network Providers Act of 2014, which just went into effect this summer. Under the new…

Taking selfies while driving is a popular and life-threatening trend: 1 in 10 people admit to taking selfies while driving. The biggest offenders are men. And it’s not just young drivers; 9 percent of people surveyed were more advanced drivers who still admitted to this dangerous activity. For many drivers, it is just a…