Monday, August 18, 2008

Cell Phone & Driving Studies

Cell Phone Use and Motor Vehicle Collisions: A Review of the Studies - the report here

Fatal Distraction? A Comparison of the Cell-phone Driver and the Drunk Driver - the study here

In 2003, researchers at the University of Utah put 41 people in driving simulators. They drove once while talking on cell phones, once while drunk. The drunks drove better.

List of some teens who have been killed while driving and texting here

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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