{"id":168708,"date":"2026-04-17T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:31:10","slug":"pa-courts-share-last-four-years-distracted-driving-offenses-lehigh-valley-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168708\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Courts share last four years distracted driving offenses \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published April 17. 2026 01:12PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Pennsylvania had over 9,000 offenses reported between 2021 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">New data reveals that people in their 20s and 30s are the most common offenders and violations peak between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Distracted driving offenses in Pennsylvania can be issued for 1) using headphones while driving, 2) using a handheld mobile phone while driving or 3) texting while driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Texting includes sending, reading or writing a text-based message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Statewide Count of distracted driving offenses filed from Jan. 1, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2025, as recorded in the Magisterial District Judge System (MDJS) and Philadelphia Municipal Court Traffic Division eTIMS System include Lehigh County distracted driving offenses for 2021 were 78, 2022 \u2014 64, 2023 \u2014 98, 2024 \u2014 76, 2025 \u2014 58, total \u2014 374, percentage of total were 3.82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In Berks County distracted driving offenses for 2021 were 83, 2022 \u2014 82, 2023 \u2014 84, 2024 \u2014 184, 2025 \u2014 160, total \u2014 593, percentage of total were 6.06.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO COURTESY INFO SHARE PA COURTSThis infographic highlights key data and demographics about distracted drivers in Pennsylvania over the last five years (2021 \u2014 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 17. 2026 01:12PM Pennsylvania had over 9,000 offenses reported between 2021 and 2025. New data reveals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-168708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}