We wanted to name this blog ”The Deadly Side of Texting And Driving” intentionally to present this new, deadly habbit as it really is.
Do you want to know how dangerous is texting and driving?
These are some staggering statistics about how dangerous is texting and driving:
- 1 in 5 people involved in distracted driving fatalities were not in a vehicle. This includes pedestrians, cyclists, or other events outside of a vehicle
- Approximately 9.7% of drivers were using devices at any daylight moment in 2018
- 15 percent of injury crashes were the result of distracted driving
- There is a 400 percent increase of time spent with eyes off the road while texting
- The risk of a crash or near-crash increases by 95 percent when reaching for or dialing a phone
- AAA found that 12% of crashes involved engaging with cell phones
Texting and driving usually causes multiple tragedies and traumas
To give you a wider picture of the topic, lets play some emotions.
We are going to mention some painful cases of texting and driving crashes that resulted in death.
Lovely family man killed by driver who was texting and driving
Mark Sevilla died on January 29, 2015. He was driving down Interstate 71/75 in Boone County when he was hit by a semi-truck.
“Veered off the road, hit a broken down car, shot across the median, and hit my brother head on,” said his sister Kathleen Strack.
The family man died at the hands of another driver who was discovered to be texting and driving for more than 40 miles.
“Accidents do happen,” she said. “This was not an accident.”
She and Sevilla’s niece, Sarah Strack, say they miss the 45-year-old every day. Sarah Strack says she was a different person after the crash.
Read the complete article here.
A 9 year old killed in front of their parents by a driver looking down on his phone
Brook and Jordan Scherer and their two children were heading north on Interstate 75 for a family trip to Ocala one afternoon in 2016 when they hit a traffic jam. Jordan Scherer braked and eased his car to a stop.
Moments later, the driver of a Hyundai coupe had failed to slow for the traffic jam and slammed into the back of the family’s SUV.
Her husband was slumped across the center console, foam bubbling from his mouth. Their 5-year-old daughter Mallory screamed in pain from the backseat. Beside the little girl, the crumpled body of their 9-year-old son Logan was pinned behind the driver’s seat.
“I’m fairly certain I knew my son was dead when I saw him because I remember thinking, ‘I can’t lose my husband, too,'” Brooke Scherer recalled.
Read the complete article here.
This blog was named ”The deadly side of texting and driving” because it is the cruel reality of this newly global happening.
We hope that after reading these articles and statistics about texting and driving, you won’t take this thing for granted.
Keep yourself safe from others, and protect others from yourself.
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