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How many accidents are caused by texting and driving in 2017?
Every year, about 421,000 people are injured in crashes that have involved a driver who was distracted in some way. Each year, over 330,000 accidents caused by texting while driving lead to severe injuries. This means that over 78% of all distracted drivers are distracted because they have been texting while driving.
What age group is most likely to text and drive?
Adults 18-33 are the most likely to admit they text while driving (59 percent) compared with age groups 34-45 (50 percent) and 46-64 (29 percent). More findings from the Pew study: Almost half of all adults and teens say they have been passengers in a vehicle when the driver was text messaging
Drivers are not taking this seriously enough:
• Over 84% of drivers recognize the danger from cell phone distractions and find it “unacceptable” that drivers text or send email while driving. Nevertheless, 36% of these same people admit to having read or sent a text message or e-mail while driving in the previous month. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
Teens whose parents drive distracted are 2 to 4 times as likely to also drive distracted.
Millennials are often labeled as spoiled; the “participation award” generation. Now the group has been handed yet another recognition for their actions—but it’s one they may not want to display in their collective trophy case.
The American Automobile Association (AAA) recently designated millennials as the worst drivers on the road, reporting that 88% of motorists between ages 19 to 24 participated in at least one “risky” behavior behind the wheel within 30 days of a survey the organization conducted this February.
While it’s debatable whether that age range truly constitutes millennial members of society, the rest of AAA’s findings leave no question: 79.8% of drivers between age 25 and 39—a true sampling of the generation—were guilty of the same recklessness, according to the survey.
The most common offenses committed by the 19-24 group were texting while driving—which they were 1.6 times more likely to do than their fellow participants—and running red lights
Suits against Apple have been filed involving a highway crash in Texas that killed two and paralyzed a seven-year-old boy and in another case that involved a California driver using FaceTime who crashed into another vehicle and killed a five-year-old girl.
In 2016, a 17-year-old in Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced to a year in prison for criminally negligent homicide after killing a 27-year-old mother of two in a distracted-driving collision.
An AT&T study revealed that most cell phone users interact with an average of five people each day on their mobile device. 81% of people studied said they would reduce or stop using their cell phone while driving if asked by one of their “top five” that they communicate with daily.
70% of those surveyed noted that they would download an app to block smartphone notifications if asked to do so by a member of their “top five” people they communicate with daily.
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/distracted...%20driving
How many accidents are caused by texting and driving in 2017?
Every year, about 421,000 people are injured in crashes that have involved a driver who was distracted in some way. Each year, over 330,000 accidents caused by texting while driving lead to severe injuries. This means that over 78% of all distracted drivers are distracted because they have been texting while driving.
What age group is most likely to text and drive?
Adults 18-33 are the most likely to admit they text while driving (59 percent) compared with age groups 34-45 (50 percent) and 46-64 (29 percent). More findings from the Pew study: Almost half of all adults and teens say they have been passengers in a vehicle when the driver was text messaging
Drivers are not taking this seriously enough:
• Over 84% of drivers recognize the danger from cell phone distractions and find it “unacceptable” that drivers text or send email while driving. Nevertheless, 36% of these same people admit to having read or sent a text message or e-mail while driving in the previous month. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
Teens whose parents drive distracted are 2 to 4 times as likely to also drive distracted.
Millennials are often labeled as spoiled; the “participation award” generation. Now the group has been handed yet another recognition for their actions—but it’s one they may not want to display in their collective trophy case.
The American Automobile Association (AAA) recently designated millennials as the worst drivers on the road, reporting that 88% of motorists between ages 19 to 24 participated in at least one “risky” behavior behind the wheel within 30 days of a survey the organization conducted this February.
While it’s debatable whether that age range truly constitutes millennial members of society, the rest of AAA’s findings leave no question: 79.8% of drivers between age 25 and 39—a true sampling of the generation—were guilty of the same recklessness, according to the survey.
The most common offenses committed by the 19-24 group were texting while driving—which they were 1.6 times more likely to do than their fellow participants—and running red lights
Suits against Apple have been filed involving a highway crash in Texas that killed two and paralyzed a seven-year-old boy and in another case that involved a California driver using FaceTime who crashed into another vehicle and killed a five-year-old girl.
In 2016, a 17-year-old in Anchorage, Alaska was sentenced to a year in prison for criminally negligent homicide after killing a 27-year-old mother of two in a distracted-driving collision.
An AT&T study revealed that most cell phone users interact with an average of five people each day on their mobile device. 81% of people studied said they would reduce or stop using their cell phone while driving if asked by one of their “top five” that they communicate with daily.
70% of those surveyed noted that they would download an app to block smartphone notifications if asked to do so by a member of their “top five” people they communicate with daily.
GO ONCI/HEXA
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