CCMTA 2009

THREE TYPES OF DISTRACTION VISUAL MANUAL COGNITIVE

of crashes are the result of driver inattention *National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 80%

Number of items a fighter pilot needs to keep track of during a regular, non combat mission: Insurance Bureau of Canada 300

Number of items the average driver needs to keep track of during rush hour Insurance Bureau of Canada 3000

While talking on a cell phone you are ___ times more likely to crash *Redelmeier et al 4

ACTIVITY Card Sorting

This is your brain when you are DRIVING. This is your brain while DRIVING DISTRACTED (i.e., listening to a passenger) SO WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU ARE DISTRACTED ? *Carnegie Mellon University

Number of items the average driver needs to keep track of during rush hour 3000 Insurance Bureau of Canada

ACTIVITY Distraction Ranking

Cellphone Use Eating & DrinkingOutside Distractions Smoking Grooming Driver Fatigue Animals/Insects Weather Conditions Reading/Writing Adjusting Controls Inside DistractionsEmotions

15 The number of metres traveled in 1 second driving at 50 km/hr

23x Times more likely to be in a crash while texting when driving: *Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

.125 If you text while driving you are just as impaired as this: (BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) Legal Limit is 0.08 mg%) Transport Research Laboratory, Britain

“It only takes a second.”

1 second = 1 bus or 15 metres

DRIVING AT 50 km/hr 5 seconds = 5 buses or 75 metres

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