Distracted Driving Kills – Do you drive while distracted?

Get the facts on driving while distracted.  Questions to consider:

1. What are the leading causes of motor vehicle accidents?

2. Are these causes preventable?

3. Should we attempt to prevent the leading causes? Even if it means you have to modify your behavior?

4. Do you support more laws as tools of enforcement? Is education enough?

5. If driving on the cell phone results in the same reaction time as driving drunk, why aren't the penalties and social outrage the same?

6. Statistics show that delaying the driving age reduces teen deaths; would you support raising the driving age?

7. If you would ban texting while drivng, why not cell phone use?  What about eating while driving? Sex while driving? Reading while driving?

8. How do you feel about your kids texting while driving?

9. How do you feel about others who drive your kids, texting while driving?

10. Will you change your behavior while driving, especially when your kids are in your vehicle?

Research on Distracted Driving: http://www.nhtsa.gov/Research/Human+Factors/Distraction

Insurance Instituate for Highway Safety - Report on Declines of Fatal Crashes of Older Drivers:  http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/r1140.pdf

Study: Cellphone Use While Driving - http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/r1134.pdf

Patterns of Driver Cell Phone Use: http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/r1133.pdf

Delaying Teen Driving Saves Lives: http://www.iihs.org/news/2008/iihs_news_090908.pdf