1. The Dangers of Texting While Driving

2. 500,00 people a year are involved in distracted driving related accidents.
6,000 people a year die from distracted driving related accidents.

3. FACTS
3 to 5 seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling 55mph, that’s enough time to cover the length of a football field.
A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into an accident than a non-texting driver.
Of those killed in distracted-driving-related crashes, 99.5 involved reports of a cell phone as a distraction (18% of fatalities in distraction-related crashes).

4. Facts
Statistics show that talking on the phone or texting while driving is just as dangerous as driving drunk.
Driving while texting on your phone is the equivalent to consuming 4 alcoholic drinks.

5. Distracted Driving Using an IPOD while driving.
Using a cell phone while driving.
Doing your makeup while driving.
Eating while driving.
Singing a song along with the radio While driving.
Looking at views outside of your car while driving.

6. Using a headset or other hands free device eliminates the effects of distracted driving.
TRUE OR FALSE????
A driver talking on the phone is ____ times more likely to get into an accident?

7. A drivers reaction time is doubled when distracted by reading or sending a text message.

8. State Laws
It is against the law in the state of Georgia to text while driving. It is against the law for anyone under the age of 18 to use a cell phone while driving at all also. This means: You can’t even make a phone call if you are driving a vehicle and under the age of 18 years old.

9. 52% of cell phone owning teens ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving.
Take the pledge today:
DON’T TEXT OR TALK WHILE DRIVING

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Drunk driving