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Distracted Driving Statistics: Cell Phones Causing Car Accidents

Safety advocates argue cell phone makers and service providers have paid little more than lip service to the dangers while producing increasingly complicated devices many motorists are using behind the wheel. Despite the mounting evidence of the dangers of cell phone use while driving (and recently of text messaging behind the wheel) the mobile phone industry built a $150 billion business in the United States largely by winning over drivers and promoting the use of cell phone while driving.

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.

“This relative risk of driving while talking on a cell phone is similar to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level at the legal limit,” researchers wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine. They said hands-free devices were no safer than hand-held phones because of the distraction that comes from focusing on a conversation, not the road.

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