Texting While Driving Injuries
Texting While Driving Injuries
Drivers using cellphones PDA's are causing serious injuries and deaths while texting and driving. In 2008, nearly 6,000 people were killed in crashes that involved distracted drivers, according to federal statistics. Getting behind the wheel intexticated is becoming the most prevalent way of getting distracted while driving.
It is not only teens or younger drivers who are guilty of this offense. Texas personal injury lawyers are cautioning that drivers of all ages are likely to cause a serious or even fatal auto crash due to being distracted behind the wheel. Often referred to as "DWT" (driving while texting) or "TWD" (texting while driving) can be as serious an offense as drunk driving, and state legislators across the country are taking a proactive position to prevent the practice.
How Distracting is DWT?
A study by the Virginia Transportation Technical Institute indicates the following levels of distraction.
Automobile Drivers
Dialing Cell Phone - 2.8 times as high as non-distracted driving
Talking/Listening to Cell Phone - 1.3 times as high as non-distracted driving
Reaching for object (i.e. electronic device and other) - 1.4 times as high as non-distracted driving
Heavy Vehicles/Trucks
Dialing Cell phone - 5.9 times as high as non-distracted driving
Talking/Listening to Cell Phone - 1.0 times as high as non-distracted driving
Use/Reach for electronic device - 6.7 times as high as non-distracted driving
Text messaging - 23.2 times as high as non-distracted driving
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