Bergen County Police and a Hackensack drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities.

Stepping up their efforts to promote safe driving to high school students, Sheriff’s deputies conducted checkpoints at two schools in Santee yesterday morning and wrote several tickets for safety and other violations.

One quarter of teens say they’ve texted while driving, despite the well-known safety risks.

Plan4Safety, a crash analysis program gives public safety professionals access to more than 300,000 accident records from 2003 to 2008.

Darien High School students look at an SUV that was involved in a crash in September. The driver, a 19-year-old DHS graduate, survived the crash. His family donated his car to promote teen driving safety.

Teenagers and cell phones are turning into a controversial combination as many teens are getting caught texting while driving. In 2008, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration reported 5,870 accidents involving 515,000 injuries due to distracted drivers. Now, a new Pew Research poll shows 1 in 4 teens aged 16-17 admit to texting while driving.

A teenager is facing an impaired driving charge after crashing into a ditch in St. John's Thursday night.

DENVER - The idea was hatched during National Teen Driver Safety Week by the Colorado Department of Transportation. The plan: to allow students to come up with public service announcements that encourage fellow teens to stop texting while driving.

The dangers of drunk driving are hard to ignore at Darien High School this week.

LONGWOOD – Half of U.S. teens with cell phones admit talking on them while driving and a third say they've written text messages while they were at the wheel, according to a report released Monday.