1. Distracted Driver Distractions now join
alcohol and speeding as leading factors in fatal and serious injury crashes

2. Statistics
According to the National Safety Council so far this year there have been an estimated 61,698 crashes caused by driver’s using cell phones and texting
More than 1.6 million crashes are caused by cell phone use and texting each year

3. Myth or Fact?
Do you believe that multitasking is a myth?

4. Multitasking Multitasking for the brain is a myth
Human brains do not perform two tasks at same time. Brain handles tasks sequentially. Brain switches between one task and another

5. Multitasking
Just listening to sentences on cell phones decreased activity by 37% in the brain’s parietal lobe which perceives movement, integrates sensory information and also has importance for language processing

7. Driving Simulator

8. Multitasking

9. How much of the road do you see when driving using a cell phone?
Is your vision of the road the same or different?

10. Inattention Blindness
Driver’s not using handheld device
Driver’s using handheld device

11. How Cell Phones Distract
Visual
Mechanical
Cognitive: Mind focuses on conversation, not on driving
Ie. “Looking” but not “seeing”

12. DO NOW
Write down examples of Visual, Mechanical, and Cognitive Distractions
List ways you can prevent these distractions.

13. Cell phone users 4x as likely to crash

14. Help us save lives. Tell everyone you know. On the Road, Off the Phone

15. Activity
Students will create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) poster that helps to detail one of the dangers of distracted driving. Students will present their signs in class.