Driving distractions include physical actions that take your eyes off the road or your hands off the wheel, mental distractions that take your mind off the task of driving and acts that include both physical and mental elements.
Drivers engage in potentially-distracting secondary tasks during more than half of the time spent driving.
More than one million people have died in motor vehicle crashes over the past 25 years in the United States, including 33,963 in 2009.
Using a cell phone while driving has been found to quadruple your risk of crashing.
The AAA Foundation’s 2010 Traffic Safety Culture Index found 52% of drivers feel less safe today than they did five years ago, and distracted driving was the most common reason cited for this.
The 2010 Index also found 92% of drivers said that texting while driving was unacceptable, but 24% of drivers also admitted having read or sent a text message or email while driving in the past month.
This year’s Index found cell phone use is rampant among all ages. More than 83% of drivers age 16-34 admitted to talking on a cell phone while driving with 46% reporting they do it fairly often or regularly. The problem exists for older drivers as well, with 76% of 45-54 year-olds admitting to talking on the phone and 34% doing so fairly often or regularly.
While the distractions of texting, emailing and using a cell phone while driving have been getting a lot of attention lately, other activities while driving such as eating, smoking, adjusting music or rubbernecking can also be dangerous.
Dealing with passengers is one of the most frequently reported causes of distraction. Young children are four times more distracting than adults as passengers, and infants eight times more distracting.

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		19:18:08 EDT Wednesday, May 16, 2012