Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37%.
Headset cell phone use is not substantially safer than hand-held use.
Sending or receiving a text takes a driver's eyes from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, the equivalent-at 55 mph-of driving the length of an entire football field, blind.
Text messaging creates a crash risk 23 times worse than driving while not distracted.
Drivers who use hand-held devices are 4 times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves.
40% of all American teens say they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger.
11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted.
18% of injury crashes in 2010 were reported as distraction-affected crashes
The fight to end distracted driving starts with you. Make the commitment to drive phone-free today. Distracted driving kills and injures thousands of people each year.
