Families Against Distracted Driving
Serenity Haven Awareness
What is Distracted Driving?
It is important to understand that distracted driving is anything that takes your attention away from driving for a period of time. This can include eating, texting, applying makeup, attending to a crying baby, emails, social media and many other distractions.
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There are three main types of distracted driving
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1. Visual: Taking your eyes of the road
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2. Manual: Taking your hands off of the wheel
3. Cognitive: Taking your mind off of driving
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Texting and driving becomes the deadliest and the largest cause of distracted driving accedents because it combines all three types of distractions
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Things to Consider.
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In less than 5 seconds a vehicle that is traveling at 55MPH will travel 100 yards, this is the length of a football field.
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More than a 1,000 people are injured and 9 people die each day from distracted divers.
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Texting while driving is 6X more likely to cause an accident than drinking and driving
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94% of teens admit to being distracted by their cell phones while driving
References
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts Research Notes 2016: Distracted Driving.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC: NHTSA; 2015. Available at https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812517external icon. Accessed 25 March 2019.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Policy Statement and Compiled FAQs on Distracted Driving. U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Available at: http://www.nhtsa.gov.edgesuite-staging.net/Driving+Safety/Distracted+Driving/Policy+Statement+and+Compiled+FAQs+on+Distracted+Drivingexternal icon. Accessed 11 April 2018.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Facts and Statistics. U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Available at: http://www.distraction.gov/stats-research-laws/facts-and-statistics.htmlexternal icon. Accessed 11 April 2018.