April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office will be joining forces across the county to intensify enforcement of texting and distracted-driving laws, and to raise awareness about the dangers, and legal implications, of distracted driving. According to the Michigan State Police criminal Justice Information Center (CJIC), in Michigan in 2019 there were 18,096 distracted driving crashes, resulting in 70 fatalities. Nationwide in 2019, the number of fatal