STATISTICS AND QUOTES

• By the time you finish reading this page, 3 people would have died in an accident related to texting and driving.
• “Texting while driving is especially dangerous because it combines all three types of distraction (visual, manual, and cognitive)“.
• “Texting while driving is the same as driving after 4 beers”.
• “You are 23 times more likely to be involved in a collision if you text while driving.”
• “4 seconds of texting and driving at average speed is equivalent to driving across a football field blindfolded.”
• “In 2015, 42% of high school students who drove in the past 30 days reported sending a text or email while driving”
• “Texting while driving increases cognitive reaction time by 74% and causes young drivers to spend 400% more time looking away increasing their risk of collision”
• “Texting while driving is six times likelier to cause an accident than alcohol.”
• “texting while driving surpassed drinking and driving as the leading cause of teenage deaths — stating that 3,000 teens die each year in crashes caused by texting while driving, as compared to 2,700 teens killed in drunk driving accidents.”
• “A total of 88% of Canadians have witnessed other drivers texting behind the wheel”
• “The RCMP reports 80 per cent of collisions are due to drivers taking their eyes away from the road onto their phones for only three seconds prior to a crash”
• “Economic losses caused by traffic collision-related health care costs and lost productivity are at least $10 billion annually. That’s about 1% of Canada’s GDP!”
• ““Driver distraction is a factor in about 4 million motor vehicle crashes in North America each year.””
• “48% of kids aged 12-17 have been in a car while the driver was texting”
• Teens who texthing while driving spend approximately 10% of their driving time outside of their lane.