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Bookmark or Share- Distracted driving - IIHS-HLDIUsing a cellphone while driving increases crash risk. Researchers have consistently linked texting or otherwise manipulating a cellphone to increased risk. Some studies, but not all, have found that talking on a cellphone also increases crash risk. Cellphones and texting aren’t the only things that can distract drivers.
- More sweeping cellphone laws reduce crash rates - IIHS-HLDIBans on holding a cellphone while driving, rather than just talking and texting, reduced crash rates in Oregon and Washington but not California. The difference may lie in the specific wording of the laws.
- Bans reduce phone use, but what about crashes? - IIHS-HLDIA new HLDI analysis indicates that even with strong enforcement, cellphone and texting bans aren't reducing crashes reported to insurers. New York in 2001 became the first state to bar all drivers from talking on a hand-held phone while driving. Currently, 14 states and the District of Columbia restrict all drivers from using a hand-held cellphone.
- Electronic device laws - IIHS-HLDIDistracted driving: Electronic device laws. Making roads and vehicles safer for everyone. The 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 ...
- Driver cellphone and texting bans in the United States: evidence of ...With regard to the effects of bans on crashes, 11 peer-reviewed papers or technical reports of all-driver hand-held phone bans and texting bans were reviewed. Some were single-state studies examining crash measures before and after a state ban; other national or multi-state studies compared crashes in states with and without bans over time.
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