What is distracted driving? While any and all of these specific types of distractions endanger the driver, passengers and other drivers, texting while driving is particularly deadly given that it combines all three types of general distraction.
According to the CDC, in over 3, people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver. That statistic worsens in , when over 3, people died at the hands of a distracted driver! When talking injuries rather than death, the statistics are even more alarming. Young drivers are disproportionally guilty of distracted driving. Specifically, drivers under the age of 20 typically have the highest percentage of distraction-caused death by car wreck.
According to YRBSS, more than two out of five students who had operated a car within a 30 day period were guilty of texting while driving. Students who text while driving are also more likely to drink and drive than other students who refrain from texting while in the car. It boggles the mind, but as of December, there were over billion text messages sent in the US alone every month! Despite public outreach and education programs, the problem continues to worsen.
The percentage of texting drivers increased from 1. The statistics demonstrate that distracted driving causes serious accidents, horrible injuries and death and this is true whether the distracted driver is in an automobile or a commercial truck.
As a personal injury attorney, it is particularly important to investigate whether aclient injured or killed by a driver was engaging in any secondary tasks while driving at the time of the accident.
