DOT 99-10 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Media Contacts: Carolyn Vadino, US Mission to the UN, 212-415-4301 Olivia Alair, Department of Transportation, 202-366-4570 U.N. and International Officials Launch Global Effort to End Distracted Driving New York , NY – Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and senior representatives from the United States and Russia appeared at the United Nations headquarters in New York today to launch a global effort to address the growing and deadly epidemic of distracted driving.







