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: A Georgia LawyerStudy: Texting While Driving Increases Crash Danger by a Huge %
"After studying the behavior of real truck drivers covering more than 6 million miles of road, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute says people who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash (or what they call a near crash event) than non-distracted drivers." Source here. The study is found here.
One finding: In crashes or near-crashes, texting took a driver's focus away from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds--enough time, the report point out, to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph.
Texting took a driver's focus away from the road for an 4.6 seconds--enough time, the report point out, to travel the length of a football field at a speed limit of 55.
It's time to make texting while driving illegal. It's a shame common sense can't make folks stop doing it.
Read more here.
Full post as published by A Georgia Lawyer on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).
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