Texting And Driving Between Adults And Teens, Equal Same Outcomes In Texas
Parents and teens ignore dangers of their own distracted driving habits in Fort Worth, yet 81 percent of parents get upset or angry when they see other motorists doing the same. Many people believe that they can text but their neighbor they are passing can’t text and drive.
In May, AAA partnered with Seventeen Magazine and surveyed teen drivers to get insight on their behaviour when behind the wheel. In the survey, 86 percent of teens admitted to driving while distracted, despite their knowledge about the inherent dangers. Interestingly, 96 percent of parents with teens admitted they too have engaged in one or more distracted driving behaviors in the past 30 days.
Many younger drivers, 41 percent of teens said “It only takes a split second” while 35 percent said "I don’t think I’ll get hurt doing it." As for parents of teen drivers, 34 percent said they are “used to multi-tasking,” while 26 percent said, “I’m a good enough driver to do more than one thing while driving.” With less experienced drivers multi-tasking the higher the opportunity there will be an accident. Although 96 percent of parents surveyed said they engage in distracted driving behavior, 81% of them get upset or angry when they see other motorists doing the same.
Everyone seems to be confident in their own ability to drive distracted, but are concerned about other distracted drivers when ironically, everyone is the ‘other driver’ and any driver who engages in distracted driving is a threat to both themselves and everyone else on the road. When teaching their teen to drive, 48 percent of parents strongly agreed that they practice all the safe driving habits they teach their teen. Yet, 41 percent said they agree or strongly agree that they expect their teen to “do as I say, not as I do.”
This article leads me to believe distracted driving compares with drunken driving. It’s always that one person who thinks, “I have only had 5 beers, I am fine to drive home.” Inevitably, they were thinking this could not happen to me because I know all about the dangers. This article supports the facts that distracted driving accidents happen to people regardless of their education of the subject. In 2008, over 20 percent of automobile accidents were due to distracted driving. I think that by raising awareness and instructing higher fines people will have more focus on the roads.
Information and commentary provided by Fort Worth Distracted Driving Accident Attorney Mark A. Anderson. The Anderson Law Firm can be contacted in Fort Worth at 817-294-1900 for a free consultation.
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Comments
Our culture is brought up to think that multi-tasking is a positive skill set to have, but in fact this talent of multi-tasking is causing people to make stupid decisions while driving that can ultimately lead to death. It's so sad that we have come to this. Thanks for sharing this article as a reminder to everyone to not "drink and drive" and now also to not "text and drive."
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