Cell phone use while driving poses significant risks. 25% of car accidents are caused by distractions, and 85% of cell phone users talk or text while driving. Texting is the most dangerous cell phone activity, taking a driver's eyes off the road for over 4 seconds per text. From 2003-2006 in Pennsylvania, 50 deaths resulted from cell phone related car accidents. Nationally, over 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries are caused each year from cell phone use while driving.

1. Cell Phones and Driving
Funny and Seriously

3. 25 percent of 75 percent of
all car drivers talk
accidents on cell
are caused by phones while
distractions driving

4. More than 112 million people
use cell phones in the U.S., and an
estimated 85% of them use their
phones while driving.

5. Despite the risks, the majority of teen drivers ignore
cell phone driving restrictions

6. 21%

7. For every 6 seconds of drive
time, a driver sending or receiving a
text message spends 4.6 of those
seconds with their eyes off the road.

8. This makes texting the most
distracting of all cell phone
related tasks

9. From 2003 to 2006, car accidents
from cell phone use lead to 50
deaths across the state of
Pennsylvania.

10. In 2002, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis calculated that
2,600 people die
each year as a result of using cellphones while driving

11. They estimated that another 330,000 are injured

12. 10% of drivers

13. In 2006, cell phones
caused
241 car accidents
in western PA

14. In 2007, 1,093 cell phone related car crashes
occurred in Pennsylvania

15. Of those crashes,
6 were fatal

16. In 2008 almost 6,000 people were killed
and a half-million were injured in crashes
related to driver distraction

17. In Pennsylvania, there were
1,298 cell phone related accidents
in 2008

18. Of those accidents,
9 resulted in death

19. Of all cell phone related tasks
- including talking, dialing, or reaching for
the phone - texting while driving is the most
dangerous

20. One-fifth of experienced adult drivers in
the United States send text messages while
driving

21. Over 60% of American teens admit to risky
driving, and nearly half of those that
admit to risky driving also admit to text
messaging behind the wheel

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28. Texting while driving
is about 6 times more
likely to result in an
accident than driving
while intoxicated