(Series: 10 Dangerous Practices to Avoid While Driving)
Here’s a few statistics about distracted driving from a 2014 review published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
- Dialing a cell phone increases the risk of a crash by 8X.
- Reaching for a cell phone increases the risk of a crash or near crash by 7.02X.
- Sending or receiving text messages increases the risk of crash by 3.82X.
- Reaching for an object other than a cell phone increases the risk of crash 8X greater than waiting until the driver arrives.
- Looking at a roadside object increases the risk of crash 3.9X.
- Eating increases risk of crash by 2.99X over those who do not eat.