What a great website has been put up by The National Highway Safety Traffic Safety Administration. The cite has a lot of great stuff.
Fact # 1
Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that’s enough time to cover the length of a football field. (2009, VTTI)
Fact # 2
A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into an accident than a non-texting driver. (2009, VTTI)
Fact # 3
Of those killed in distracted-driving-related crashed, 995 involved reports of a cell phone as a distraction (18% of fatalities in distraction-related crashes). (NHTSA)
Video’s that need to be shared.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FqgTwSqDQYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1COVgxlUss&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=huUpVL3CA9U
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Stay alive and drive when you are behind the wheel.
