Distracted drivers were involved in nearly eight out of 10 collisions or
near-crashes,
We see people on the
roadways talking on the
phone, checking their
stocks, checking scores,
fussing with their MP3
players, reading e-mails,
all while driving 40, 50,
60, 70 miles per hour
and sometimes even faster
They found that the risk of a crash increases almost threefold when a
driver is dialing a cell phone.
a young woman craning her neck to look out the driver's side window
before rear-ending a stopped car. She cups her hand over her mouth in
disbelief.
an out-of-control sedan skidding in front a woman's car, causing a
collision. The air bag deploys and the driver's hair, tied back behind her
ears, flies into her face
John Simpson of Christiansburg, Va., said his "personal favorite" is once
seeing a woman in traffic "with her knees up on the steering wheel,
sheet music in her lap and she was playing the flute."
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