A new poll conducted by HealthDay and Harris Interactive, uncovered frightening information about drivers and their dangerous behaviors behind the wheel.
Among the many results, the most shocking of the results was that 90 percent of American adult drivers engage in dangerous and distracting behavior – and most admit that it is risky but do it anyway.
"The number of drivers who engage in potentially dangerous, in some cases extremely dangerous, behaviors while driving is terrifyingly high, particularly when you remember that every 1 percent of drivers polled represents more than one-and-three-quarters of a million people," Humphrey Taylor, chairman of the Harris Poll, told HealthDay.
Other findings in the poll:
- 86% of drivers have eaten or drank something while driving – 57% do it often or sometimes.
- 59% of drivers talk on a non-hands-free phone.
- 37% have read or sent texts – 18% do it regularly.
- 36% of drivers had done their hair – 10% do it regularly.
- 14% of drivers have applies makeup – 7% do it frequently.
- 13% of drivers have gone online while driving – 9% do it often or sometimes.
- 7% say they watch videos often or sometimes.
The poll discovered that these activities are dangerous but do it anyway.
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