Statistics: Driving and Cell Phones Still Don’t Mix

Can simultaneous driving and talking on the cell phone be dangerous to your health?

For the millions of Americans who have witnessed a car sliding down the road with the driver talking on a cell phone, the answer to the above question is “I love it.”

It is a common scene. A late afternoon market in a metropolitan city with a car docked with vehicles slowly returning home. You glance over at the driver in the car next to you, only to notice them talking and beaming on cell phones. The traffic begins to pick up, but then the driver became so called in a conversation with a cell phone they know someone on the other side, that they forget the traffic movement. Completely un-focused, the inevitable happens – a car accident.

Whose fault is it? I don’t know how quickly cell phone disappears.

Point blank – cell phones have been shown to be dangerous for drivers. If the mortality rate does not go up, car insurance will be premium. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Vehicle insurance rates will still go up. But lost money is one of the results. Other lives were lost.

Even though the police officers are slowly cracking down on the drivers when cell phones started, the message that is not getting out was indeed stronger. The leaders still neglect their duties by leaving the roads and continue to do as they please with their cell phones not only endangering the lives but the lives of others. life. They do not want to take the action of the agent: both eyes on the road.

It is also a problem that the driver had a cell phone in his hand while driving.

Here are some interesting mutants. According to the journal, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, phone distraction causes over 2,500 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States each year. .

Past studies have shown that drivers using mobile phones were 18 percent slower at stop lights and 17 percent longer to recover lost speed when breaking. Of course, that would frustrate other motorists.

Also, a study previously conducted by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis NHTSA (Acronym: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) the use of cell phones in cars had increased from 5 percent of motorists using the nation in 2004 compared to 6 percent in 2005. The 2005 survey showed an estimated percentage of vehicles from You are forced to use a cell phone, either hand-held or hands-free.

In Washington state alone, between January and September 2006, cell phones contributed to 889 crashes, or less than 1 percent of the 101,499 crashes reported, according to the most recent Transportation Department data available. One of the car related electronics was fatal.

Today, despite the increasing worldwide cell phone usage, only several regions, three states and Washington D.C. prohibited the use of hand-held cell phones while driving.

If motorists are required to keep cell phones in their cars, they should only be used for one purpose: to call 911 for emergency situations. It is not difficult to hide the phone in the glove compartment just for this necessity. Diseases and sorrows of life but the price.

Sources:

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

NHTSA: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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