Don’t Text & Drive Your Life Depends On It

By: Micah Penhollow8B History

Would You Do This!?!

Where u atlol

Yeahwhere r

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What About Now?Ashley• Last text from her sister was “yeah” • She flipped her truck • Ashley died• Sister lives with guilt every day

Mariah• Last text from her boyfriend was “where u at”• Hit the median and was thrown from her car• Mairiah died• Mom celebrates Mariah’s birthday every year with

her friends

What About Now?Patrick• Text before accident was “lol”• Hit a man on a bicycle and killed him• Had to do community service• Has emotional problems

Random Dude• Was passenger in a car with a friend who was driving• Friend texted before the accident “where r”• Car hit tree• Random dude has permanent brain damage

Cell Phone Use Statistics• Drivers under age 20 had the highest proportion of distracted

drivers involved in fatal crashes at 16% and drivers age 20-29 were the next highest at 12%

• Cell phone use behind the wheel reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37%

• The risk of a crash is 4 times higher when a driver uses a cell phone even if it’s hands-free

• 58% of high school seniors and 43% of high school juniors report texting or emailing while driving

• Teens sends and receive about 100 text messages a day• Some activities such as texting take the driver’s attention away

from driving more frequently and for longer periods than other distractions

Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009.

Cell Phone Use Statistics con’t.• 1.6 million car accidents every year cause a half million

injuries and 6,000 deaths• 80% of all car accidents involve some type of distraction• 11% of drivers talk on their cell phones every day• The reaction time of a teen driver using a cell phone is

the same as a 70 year old grandma not using one• Texting while driving is 6 times more likely to cause an

accident than driving while drinking• Texting and driving for 5 seconds is equivalent to driving

the length of a football field blindfolded at 55 mph.

Source: http://www.dontextdrive.com

Key Facts

• In 2009, more than 5,400 people died and about 448,000 people were injured in crashes reported to involve distracted drivers

• Among those killed or injured in these crashes, nearly 1,000 deaths and 24,000 injuries included cell phone use as the major distraction

• The proportion of drivers reportedly distracted at the time of a fatal crash increased from 7% in 2005 to 11% in 2009

Source: Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts: Distracted Driving 2009. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, September 2010. Publication no. DOT-HS-811-379. Available from http://www.distraction.gov/ . Accessed June 27, 2011.

Distractions While Driving

Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

What Do Teen Drivers Say?• 9% of drivers in the United States reported texting or

emailing “regularly or fairly often” while driving• 52% of U.S. drivers ages 18-29 reported texting or emailing

while driving at least once in the last 30 days, and more than a quarter report texting or emailing “regularly” or “fairly often” while driving

• 90% of teens see passengers in a car who are distracting the driver

• 50% of teens report seeing passengers encouraging drivers to speed, sometimes going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit

Sources: Porter Novelli. (2010). HealthStyles 2010 Survey. Unpublished raw data. Washington, DC: Adam Burns.

http://www.teendriversource.org

Teen Drivers Report This

Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

Why Give it Up?

Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

Tips to Follow When Driving• Don’t ever send or read a text • Turn off your cell phone• Take out the cell phone battery• Put your cell phone in the trunk• Try wearing driving gloves so you can’t text back

Sources: http://www.donttextdrive.com

http://www.dosomething.org/news/5-tricks-will-stop-you-texting-while-driving.com

Reasons Not To Text

• It’s against the law• You could hurt or kill someone• You could hurt or kill yourself• You could spend time in jail or be

a juvenile delinquent • It could cost you or your parents

a lot of money

5 Ways to Get Drivers to Stop Texting• Direct Approach – “I’m sorry, I don’t like it when people

text and drive.” Most will admit it’s not a good idea• Subtle Approach – “If you want me to text for you, I

will.” Text for the person and say “drive right now, text later.”

• Wow look at the Bad Driver Approach – “Wow, did you see how that guy’s driving, he’s all over the road.”

• Group Approach – Everyone in the car agrees the driver is a hazard and then take away his keys and say “We aren’t going to ride with you if you text and drive.”

• Life Saving Approach – “My parents said I can’t ride with my friends if they text and drive, because it isn’t safe.”

Source: http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/no_texting.html

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