{"id":1617,"date":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/2015\/03\/26\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:37:41","slug":"u-drive-u-text-u-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of April is National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/april-is-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month\/\">Distracted Driving Awareness<\/a> Month, which means that many organizations will be reiterating the dangers associated with distracted driving. The NHTSA will be kicking off a second national distracted driving enforcement campaign titled \u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d As part of this campaign, law enforcement officials will be cracking down on motor vehicle drivers from April 10 until April 15, especially those texting or otherwise distracted while behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>U Drive. U Text. U Pay<\/em>. safety movement has provided grant funding totaling $8.4 million to states throughout the U.S. so that they are able to support the fight against distracted driving. The campaign will include a social media campaign, as well as television and radio media to raise public awareness about the serious dangers associated with distracted driving, texting in particular. Law enforcement agencies will increase interstate and roadway patrols, spotter locations, and stationary police vehicles in locations throughout Georgia communities in an effort to catch and cite drivers violating the law.<\/p>\n<p>Most Georgians have been exposed to some type of distracted driving prevention campaign material, but many still fail to comprehend just how dangerous it can be. Most drivers incorrectly believe the statistics do not apply to them and that they defy the odds. Unfortunately, it often takes an accident occurring before distracted drivers wake up and realize that they are at danger when not paying full attention to the road.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cif You\u2019re Texting, You\u2019re Not Driving.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2013 alone, approximately 424,000 people were injured in auto accidents that involved distracted drivers. 3,154 people died, which is a decrease from 2012, but unfortunate nonetheless. Distracted driving is defined as any action that diverts a motor vehicle driver\u2019s attention away from the main task of driving. Whether the action is eating, changing radio dials, navigating GPS devices, or talking on the phone, all distractions endanger not only the driver responsible for the actions, but passengers and bystanders as well. Text messaging is the form of distracted driving that most people think of, simply because it is one of the most alarming distractions. Texting requires manual, cognitive, and visual attention, all of which are needed on the road while driving.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Click It or Ticket<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/drive-sober-or-get-pulled-over\/\"><em>Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over<\/em><\/a> safety campaigns reached millions of U.S. citizens, so the NHTSA and safety officials hope the new <em>U Drive. U Text. U Pay. <\/em>campaign will be a success as well. For more information on distracted driving or to read more statistics, visit www.distraction.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is distracted driving awareness month.  Jones &amp; Swanson is teaming up with the NHTSA to promote the &#8220;U Drive. U Text. U Pay&#8221; safety campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,25,30,49,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-auto-accidents","8":"category-car-accident","9":"category-catastrophic-injuries","10":"category-distracted-driving","11":"category-personal-injury","12":"category-texting-accidents","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d | Jones &amp; Swanson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones &amp; Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones &amp; Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"210\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"179\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@awjoneslaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jones &amp; Swanson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\"},\"wordCount\":427,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif\",\"articleSection\":[\"Auto Accidents\",\"Car Accident\",\"Catastrophic Injuries\",\"Distracted Driving\",\"Personal Injury\",\"Texting Accidents\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\",\"name\":\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif\",\"width\":210,\"height\":179,\"caption\":\"Upay 200\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Texting Accidents\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/category\/texting-accidents\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\",\"name\":\"Jones & Swanson\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png\",\"width\":311,\"height\":140,\"caption\":\"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/awjoneslaw\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jonesandswanson\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jones-swanson\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf\",\"name\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jones &amp; Swanson\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d | Jones & Swanson","description":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d","og_description":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","og_url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/","og_site_name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw","article_published_time":"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":210,"height":179,"url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif","type":"image\/gif"}],"author":"Jones &amp; Swanson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@awjoneslaw","twitter_site":"@awjoneslaw","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jones &amp; Swanson","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/"},"author":{"name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf"},"headline":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d","datePublished":"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/"},"wordCount":427,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif","articleSection":["Auto Accidents","Car Accident","Catastrophic Injuries","Distracted Driving","Personal Injury","Texting Accidents"],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/","name":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif","datePublished":"2015-03-26T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-12T15:37:41+00:00","description":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d: Jones & Swanson, with 45+ years of experience and millions recovered. Contact us and claim your justice today!","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/upay-200.gif","width":210,"height":179,"caption":"Upay 200"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/u-drive-u-text-u-pay\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer","item":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Texting Accidents","item":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/blog\/category\/texting-accidents\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"\u201cU Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/","name":"Jones & Swanson","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#organization","name":"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/logo.png","width":311,"height":140,"caption":"Jones & Swanson Personal Injury Lawyers in Marietta, GA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/awjoneslaw","https:\/\/x.com\/awjoneslaw","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jonesandswanson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jones-swanson\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ad0f80a60f3f05445ae0c022d72513bf","name":"Jones &amp; Swanson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9fd9f14db9057eda137490f078311f4871b29c1f4c855fad1deecf0530a1c41?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jones &amp; Swanson"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awjlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}