
10 Tips To Prevent Distracted Driving
Distracted driving refers to driving while engaged in distracting activities such as talking and texting on the phones, including eating, grooming or reading. Hands-free technologies won’t totally eliminate distracted driving. There are still risks of the driver keeping their eyes or focus off the road.
Distracted driving risks the lives of passengers and pedestrians. In 2011, more than 3,000 were killed and almost 400,000 were injured in because of distracted drivers. This is according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Research indicates that 80% of teenage girls and 50% teenage boys admitted that they texted while driving. Distracted driving is considered the number one teen killer in the USA especially during the summer.
Watch this youtube video on the dangers of texting and teenage driving: Texting and Summer Driving: Getting Real about the Risks
Free Online Distracted Driving Course
So how do you avoid distracted driving and keep the road safe for pedestrians as well as for your passengers? Here are 10 easy to do tips to manage common distractions to drivers.
Direct callers to an automated voice messaging service
Pull over
Ask a passenger to answer or text for you
If you are waiting for an important call or needed an answer to the text immediately, you can ask your passenger who probably is your family member or friend to take the call for you or reply to a text for you.