Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022

[exsparky]

For those that asked for it.

https://www.enddd.org/the-facts-abou...hoCjnIQAvD_BwE


NHTSA’s Report “The True Cost of Economic and Societal Impacts of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2019, indicated that rather than 3,100 deaths per years, distracted driving fatalities were likely in excess of 10,000 per year. Accordingly. The % of traffic fatalities caused by distracted driving was likely to be about 29% as opposed to 10%.

“I’m a good driver. I can handle it.”

Most drivers see others driving distracted on nearly every trip they take. We get angry when we see others driving distracted, yet many of us drive distracted. Reducing distracted driving and saving lives will require us to change he way we think about distracted driving.

Crash and Distracted Driving Statistics

Total traffic fatalities for 2022 Estimated By NHTSA to be about 42,800
The fatal crash rate for teens is 3 times greater than for drivers age 20 and over (IIHS)
Driver distraction is responsible for more than 58% of teen crashes. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
According to the CDC drivers aged 15-19 were more likely to be distracted than drivers aged 20 and older, among drivers in crashes where a death occurred.
According to the CDC, YRBS, while about 175 of 9th grade students will text and drive, about 60% of 12th graders will do so
Cambridge Mobile Telematics reports the amount of time drivers are distracted by their phones increased by about 23% from 2020 to 2022
Cambridge Mobile Telematics reports that drivers interacted with their phones 58% of trips in 2022, up from 54% in 2020.

Text messaging for commercial drivers increases the risk of crash or near-crash by 23 times.

Cell phone users are 5.36 times more likely to get into an accident than undistracted drivers.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022. NHTSA leads the national effort to save lives by preventing this dangerous behavior. Get the facts, get involved, and help us keep America’s roads safe.

[Buster Highmen]

Driving requires a license and most distracted driving (e.g. texting) is illegal.

Treat guns and particularly semiautos the same way.

Let the CDC study gun related deaths and injuries too.

One other nit: lots of gun deaths are intentional. Virtually no cell phone related car deaths are intentional.

[k2skier112]

At any given stoplight, 80% of the drivers are staring at their crotches

[NW_SKIER]

Can you give us a summary? This is too hard to read while I'm driving.

[paulster2626]

At any given stoplight, 80% of the drivers are staring at their crotches

Yes, light turns green, I can see their heads down, ****HONK**** WAKE THE FUCK UP ASSHOLES!

[heckacali]

Yup, distracted driving is a real problem.

Is there anyone who is fervently against doing anything about it?

Any lobbying groups pouring millions to ignore it or blocking studies of it to make changes?

Has it become a massive culture war wedge and identity issue?
"You'll take the phone out of my hands and put them on the steering wheel when they are cold and dead!!" Wait, that doesn't sound good does it.

Are politicians making pandering videos of themselves driving distracted to show their support for their single issue voters?

And don't bring up the 2A, the problem is in a poor interpretation of what the 2A means and a refusal by many to even discuss measures to reduce gun deaths.

[m2711c]

Thank God for this thread. Now, maybe we can save some children.

[exsparky]

There aren't movie posters with Arnold or Sly holding a phone.

[Conundrum]

Any numbers on how many distracted drivers have driven into celebration parades, churches, night clubs, schools, ex-employer buildings, etc causing multiple fatalities and injuries of unsuspecting people trying to lead an average day in their lives?

[heckacali]

Yeah, we clearly have a violence glorification problem in media. (To sparkys post)

[skaredshtles]

Any numbers on how many distracted drivers have driven into celebration parades, churches, night clubs, schools, ex-employer buildings, etc causing multiple fatalities and injuries of unsuspecting people trying to lead an average day in their lives?

<checks notes>

Yeah... there's NONE of that going on.

[skaredshtles]

Yeah, we clearly have a violence glorification problem in media. (To sparkys post)

I thought it was video games?

[sb]

If only there was something you could do.

[Conundrum]

Thoughts and prayers.

[singlesline]

Meanwhile Montana continues to have texting and driving be totally legal outside of a handful of towns that have banned it within city limits.

No wonder my car insurance bill exploded when I moved here.

[BmillsSkier]

I don't like to call out other maggots on just about anything, but I can't imagine wasting my time on creating this entire thread in response to being called out by others for posting a bunch of completely insensitive whataboutism garbage in response to a post about another senseless school shooting that killed 2 students and 2 teachers and wounded many more.

Maybe push back from the keyboard for a moment and evaluate your priorities.

[abraham]

Why don't you care about heart disease?
Distracted driving deaths are insignificant compared to heart disease.


I'll get you some numbers after I finish texting on my other phone, there's time before the next interchange I'm gonna blow through. Not gonna let the man hold me back with any rules.

[heckacali]

FYI self-driving vehicles make it a lot easier to text while driving and still be able to hold your beer in the other hand.

[abraham]

FYI self-driving vehicles make it a lot easier to text while driving and still be able to hold your beer in the other hand.

They don't use the outside lanes enough for my taste. Everyone else is sitting in traffic and I can just blow by on the left or right. If they didn't want the shoulder to be used they wouldn't have paved it.

[MultiVerse]

The US has more road murderers than other developed countries. American roads are now more Mad Max than even Russian roads. Physics, more so than distracted driving, appears to be the biggest factor. There are large disparities between the sizes of vehicles on American roads. When a heavier vehicle like a truck hits a person, or person on a bike, or a person in a lighter vehicle the fatality rate is nearly eight times higher than the same collision involving a regular sized car.

[heckacali]

Also, I have named all my cars "Bike"

It really opens up some options with having more lanes for me.

[abraham]

Fuck yeah, solid tip.

My car's spiritually a bike since it can't see stop signs.

[2FUNKY]

Meanwhile Montana continues to have texting and driving be totally legal outside of a handful of towns that have banned it within city limits.

No wonder my car insurance bill exploded when I moved here.

Lmao. You think a law will change that behavior? It’s illegal here but hasn’t stopped anyone doing it.


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[nickwm21]

Yeah - we should just abolish all laws because criminals don’t follow laws anyway.


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[MontuckyFried]

"I know teh solution! Let's stick giant iPads in the console and replace gauges with hudge screens!"
-the Auto Industry