While multiple activities can take away your focus from driving, the most common threat to road safety is talking and texting on phones.Teens are more vulnerable to text and drive as 40 percent confessed to being on their phones continuously while driving in a Nationwide Children's Hospital study in collaboration with the CDC and Ohio State University.
As driving requires a lot of attention and focus, using a cell phone while driving can impair the reaction time of a driver, making it more likely to crash. Drivers typically spend five seconds sending or reading a text message, if the driver is traveling at 55 mph, this is long enough to drive the entire football field.
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