Cell Phone and Driving Funny and Seriously

Cell Phones and Driving Funny and Seriously

25 percent of

all car

accidents

are caused by

distractions

75 percent of

drivers talk

on cell

phones while

driving

More than 112 million people

use cell phones in the U.S., and an

estimated 85% of them use their

phones while driving.

Despite the risks, the majority of teen drivers ignore cell phone driving restrictions

Each year, 21% of fatal car crashes involving teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were the result of cell phone usage

For every 6 seconds of drive time, a driver sending or receiving a text message spends 4.6 of those seconds with their eyes off the road.

This makes texting the most distracting of all cell phone

related tasks

From 2003 to 2006, car accidents from cell phone use lead to 50 deaths across the state of Pennsylvania.

In 2002, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis calculated that

2,600 people die each year as a result of using cellphones while driving

They estimated that another 330,000 are injured

In 2005, the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration found that 10% of drivers are on handheld or hands free cell phones at any given hour of the day

In 2006, cell phones caused 241 car accidents in western PA

In 2007, 1,093 cell phone related car crashes occurred in Pennsylvania

Of those crashes, 6 were fatal

In 2008 almost 6,000 people were killed and a half-million were injured in crashes related to driver distraction

In Pennsylvania, there were 1,298 cell phone related accidents in 2008

Of those accidents, 9 resulted in death

Of all cell phone related tasks - including talking, dialing, or reaching for the phone - texting while driving is the most dangerous

One-fifth of experienced adult drivers in the United States send text messages while driving

Over 60% of American teens admit to risky driving, and nearly half of those that admit to risky driving also admit to text messaging behind the wheel

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Texting while driving is about 6 times more likely to result in an accident than driving while intoxicated