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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines distracted driving as any activity that could divert attention from the primary task of driving. Besides using electronic gadgets, distractions can also include adjusting a radio, eating and drinking, reading, grooming, and interacting with passengers. More @Wikipedia
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- Distracted driving - IIHS-HLDIThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines distracted driving as any activity that could divert attention from the primary task of driving. Besides using electronic gadgets, distractions can also include adjusting a radio, eating and drinking, reading, grooming, and interacting with passengers.
- Fatality Facts 2022 Yearly snapshot - IIHS-HLDIDistracted drivers in fatal crashes during 2022, by distraction type; Distraction type Number % Generally distracted or "lost in thought" (daydreaming) 1,959: 63: Cellphone use (talking, listening, dialing, texting) 375: 12: Outside person, object or event, such as rubbernecking: 277: 9: Other distraction, not specified: 81: 3
- IIHS-HLDIThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent, nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from motor vehicle crashes through research and evaluation and through education of consumers, policymakers and safety professionals.
- Smartphones lead to distraction. Could they also prevent it?When we think about distracted driving, we automatically think of smartphones. They’re indispensable. They’re addictive. They can also be dangerous. Crash data based on police reports indicate that around 3,350 people were killed in all distraction-related crashes and 382 died in crashes involving cell phone use in 2021.
- More sweeping cellphone laws reduce crash rates - IIHS-HLDIIn Oregon, distracted driving convictions were dropping before a generalized holding ban became effective in October 2017. Afterward, they rose 50 percent in 2018 and another 27 percent in 2019. Likewise, in Washington, which adopted its broader law in July 2017, previous year-to-year drops in citations were followed by increases of 74 percent ...
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