11 Facts About Texting and Driving
February 11, 2015
Driving while distracted is one of the riskiest behaviors for motorists. The number of crashes caused by distracted drivers has actually increased since the 2010 Iowa law banning texting and driving went into effect.
11 Facts About Texting and Driving
- Texting makes a crash up to 23 times more likely.
- Teens who text while driving spend 10 percent of the time outside their lane.
- According to AT&T’s Teen Driver Survey, 97 percent of teens agree that texting while driving is dangerous, yet 43 percent do it anyway.
- 19 percent of drivers of all ages admit to surfing the web while driving.
- 43 states, plus D.C., prohibit all drivers from texting.
- According to CTIA.org, in the month of June 2011, more than 196 billion text messages were sent or received in the United States, up almost 50 percent from June 2009.
- 40 percent of teens say that they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone.
- The most recent National Occupant Protection Use Survey finds that women are more likely than men to reach for their cell phones while driving.
- According to 77 percent of teens, adults tell them not to text or email while driving, yet adults do it themselves “all the time.”
- 90 percent of teens expect a reply to a text or email within five minutes or less, which puts pressure on them to respond while driving.
Information courtesy of beta.dosomething.org.
