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Sep 11, 2013

* USA - DANGEROUS DRIVERS: Distracted by their cell phones

* Washington - The lure of electronics, the perils of distraction

Seattle,WASH,USA-Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Sep. 10, 2013: -- A new study came out this week – compiled by the University of Washington’s Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center – that makes an unsurprising yet important finding: some 45% of “distracted drivers” identified during the school’s real-time observation of 7,800 drivers across six Washington State counties were distracted by their cell phones; either talking on them or texting with them... Dr. Beth Ebel, an associate professor of pediatrics at the school and the study’s principal investigator, added that among the 3.4% of drivers observed in the study talking on a hand-held phone, half were holding the device near or under the steering wheel. This risky behavior diverts the driver’s attention from the road... That’s a big deal for several reasons, noted Dr. Ebel, with estimates suggesting that up to 28% of crash risk is attributable to cell phone use or text messaging in vehicles... While the Governors Highway Safety Assn. (GHSA) began calling for outlawing all handheld cell phone use while behind the wheel for all drivers in the nation, not just truckers, starting about a year ago, other studies suggest such bans may not produce the desired result: namely the cessation of cell phone use while driving...

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