An off-duty Seattle police officer was taken to a hospital Tuesday night when another driver watching a GPS unit caused a crash with the officer's SUV, officials said. The officer was checked out as a precaution, but she was not seriously injured.
Police said the two drivers were northbound on Aurora Avenue and the other driver, who is from out of town, was watching his GPS unit when it told him to turn right at the intersection with Roy Street.
The man was in the inside lane on Aurora and turned directly in front of the officer's SUV, according to police.
The officer had no time to stop and
hit the side of the man's vehicle, causing it flip on its side. He was not hurt.
Davis Law Group is relieved to hear that no one was seriously injured in this distracted driving collision.
Distracted Driving Statistics
The federal government estimated that by 2007 11 percent of drivers were talking on their phones at any given time. Harvard University researchers have estimated that drivers using cell phones are causing more than 2,500 or more fatal crashes a year and more than 500,000 injury accidents annually. In 2008, distracted driving motor vehicle accidents killed nearly 6,000 Americans.
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