New York State Troopers aren't hiding it at all. They're letting people know that they're looking for a certain group of people and giving them tickets.
Local police agencies will be on the look out for distracted motorists during "Operation Hang Up" Operation Hang Up is part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, which is the month of April. In 2015, 3,477 people were killed and an estimated 391,000 injured in distracted driving crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Distracted driving is not cool. That's the message being conveyed by teens across the nation in the Watch Out Loud video competition that was sponsored by I Drive Safely.