Future. Now becky quick. We begin with distracted driving. The number of deaths from Car Accidents in the United States has hit its highest level since 2007, and the reasons range from higher speed limits to drunk driving. But there may be one other big factor. Phil lebow has more. Driving in america has become deadlier. The National Safety council estimates more than 40,000 people died in car a accidents last year, the most since 2007. It caps the steepest twoyear rise in auto fatalities since 1964. Some is because drivers are going faster as states raise speed limits, while distracted driving remains a huge problem. Ironically, highway deaths are rising even as new technologies like lane Departure Warning systems are becoming more common. But the National Safety council says some of the new systems are being ignored by drivers. There are happen tick warning, oral warning, visual warning. Some of these warning are confusing to drivers and some of them are the functionality is really n
2007 and the reasons range from higher speed limits to drunk driving. But there may be one other big factor. Phil lebeau has more. Reporter driving in america has become deadlier. The National Safety council estimates more than 40,000 people died in Car Accidents last year, the most since 2007. It caps the steepest twoyear rise in auto fatalities since 1964. Some of it is because drivers are going faster, as states raise speed limits, while distracted driving remains a huge problem. Ironically, highway deaths are rising even as new technologies like lane Departure Warning systems, are becoming more common. But the National Safety council says some of these new systems are being ignored by drivers. There are oral warnings, visual warnings. Some of these warnings are confusing to drivers and some of them are, the functionality is really not there, so drivers are turning them off. Reporter doug simpson, founder and ceo, thinks he has a way to keep drivers from picking up their phone. Sinc
Alcides and i am alcides segui. The team back, anjuli and lindsay. The group of three. They didnt want to see us. They went straight to this shot. Lindsay a good shot. I will give them that. Bayshore showing high clouds. Sunrise in the works. A lovely one. Look at the opposite at the beach and a couple of towering clouds. A few tiny showers to show. You not many. We have warmed one degree since last hour in tampa. At 81. 74 in frostproof. Bartow at 73. Feels like 87 in tampa this hour. Couple of pesky little showers in the near shore waters and as we zoom in, lets watch them move and most of these will fall apart before they reach the beach. I will be watching them this morning. High pressure just west of our area. We will have drier air aloft but also light wind. What that will do as we head through the morning couple of showers midday through the coast. There is that 20 rain chance. Are well east of i75. Pretty decent weekend. Just watch those storms well inland late in the day. New
Mike wankum, weve got patriots home opener today and tailgating starting soon. Mike i think youll be okay. There will be spot showers out there. Its not like a real heavy duty rain were talking about. The areas that have a bit of sunshine, notice how the temperatures warm to the 70s. The areas that have been gray and scattered showers this morning, pretty much left into the 60s. You see the dividing line. Well get this first batch moving through this morning. Then it will taper off as we go through the headed to gillette stadium, id suggest bringing along foul weather gear. If you leave it home, youll get showers over the stadium. Theres a shower on 495 weakening as we speak. What will happen is these lines will continue to work their way through. As we get into the afternoon, its more gray skies with holes in the cloud cover. Then well wait until later on tonight. A batch of showers will develop off to our west. Be on the slow side because of the rain moving through. Much more on the
Be the culprit. It was taken down for three weeks. At this time were looking into seeing if the camera that is placed there might be more sensitive. Ellen mendelson is an attorney whose cases include red light camera tickets. Its supposed to be one second per ten miles per hour. If they change that, someone going through yellow would have a shorter time and would be caught. That would be a violation of california, and federal a Landscape Contractor for caltrans was hit and killed today near marsh road. Sky 7 you can see a black mercedesbenz coupe there. The chp says the woman struck two people, killing one of them the driver and second worker were taken to the hospital. Two workers part of a crew from job train, providing skills training. They were cleaning up trash when this happened were shocked and saddened. We extend our sympathies to the family. Were working to support counselling and support to the crews and people here. Chp is trying to figure out what caused the driver to veer