Driving while distracted increases during the pandemic, a study reveals
A version of this article first appeared in Streetsblog. A new study of COVID-era car crashes finds that a shocking 27% of all drivers were using their cell phones within 60 seconds of impact — and transportation safety leaders are doing almost nothing to stop it, despite a preponderance of proven strategies that can compel us to put down our devices when we’re behind the wheel. In an analysis of 86,000 collisions that took place on US roads in 2020, mobility analysis firm Zendrive found that our country’s record-setting crash rates in the lockdown months usually involved dangerous dist...
Source: ggwash.org