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Understanding Distracted Driving: Risks, Types, and Prevention Tips

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Distracted driving involves any activity that diverts attention from driving, significantly increasing the risk of accidents. It can be classified into three types: visual (taking your eyes off the road), manual (removing your hands from the wheel), and cognitive (losing focus on driving). Common distractions include texting, using mobile devices, adjusting the radio, and talking to passengers. Distracted driving is linked to a substantial percentage of crashes, especially among young drivers. This session provides crucial insights and tips to combat distracted driving.

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Understanding Distracted Driving: Risks, Types, and Prevention Tips

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  1. Distracted Driving Session 3

  2. What is Distracted driving? any activity that could divert your attention away from the primary task of driving…

  3. Types of distractions • Visual • Manual • Cognitive

  4. What are you Looking at?... Visual Distractions Diverting your eyes from driving

  5. 10 and 2… Manual • taking your hands off the steering wheel

  6. What did you say ?.... Cognitive • Taking your mind from your primary task of driving

  7. Common Distractions • Texting… Cell / mobile device usage • Adjusting a radio, CD player, or MP3 player • Using a navigation system • Talking to passengers • Eating and drinking • Reaching or Searching for Something • Grooming • Reading

  8. Which is more dangerous Those distractions that involve multiple types of distractions simultaneously

  9. Certainties • affect driving performance. • Drivers distracted as much as half the time. • associated with 15 to 25 percent of crashes • Cell phone use increases crash risk. • Texting increases crash risk more than cell phone use.

  10. ACCORDING TO NHSTA Talking On Cell Phone • reduces the amount of brain activity devoted to driving by 37%. Texting • takes your eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds • 20 times more likely to be involved in a crash

  11. National Statistics • In 2010 motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver. • 3,092 killed • 416,000 injured • 11% under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were distracted • Young people (Under 24) have the largest proportion of distracted drivers

  12. Distracted Driving in Georgia under age 18 prohibited from using any wireless device while driving • No cell • No texting 18 or over • No reading, no writing, no texting

  13. What can I do? • Make a pledge to never text or talk on the phone while driving. • speak up if the driver in your car is distracted. • Assign a designated texter. • Never look up numbers while driving.

  14. Practical Tips • Put your phone out of reach • Turn off notifications while driving • Specific ring-tones for important people • Avoid eating and drinking while driving. • apps/ services that can disable features while in motion.

  15. Recourses • www.distraction.gov/ • www.gahighwaysafety.org/ • www.osha.gov/distracted-driving/index.html

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