This infographic boils down to people saying this: texting while driving is a problem when other people do it. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. It’s a problem when anyone does it – and lots of people are doing it. Accident statistics and traffic studies say that a texting driver is 23 times more likely to crash than a non-texting …
PSA of the Week
Here’s a sneak preview of one of the cover stories in this Friday’s Medical Examiner. May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. And in case you’re thinking, “I don’t have a motorcycle,” don’t forget that motorcycle-motorcycle accidents are extremely rare. Motorcycle-car accidents aren’t.
It’s the PSA of the Week
If it’s Tuesday, it’s PSA Day in this spot on the Internet, also known worldwide as M.E.D.P.S.A. (Medical Examiner’s Day for Public Service Announcements). It’s huge in Belgium. As part of our ongoing observance of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, check out this 30-second PSA from USDOTNHTSA, a.k.a. the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. …
I Hate Monday
…and while I’m at it, I hate denial. What specific kind, you ask? Well, everyone knows distracted driving – like texting while motoring down the highway – is dangerous, yes, downright foolhardy. But the same driver surveys that have established that fact (to say nothing of accident statistics) have also found that the very same people who think it’s risky …
Why is it a distraction???
APRIL IS DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH Why is talking on a cell phone distracting, but talking to in-car passengers or listening to music while driving isn’t? Odd, isn’t it? It is a statistical fact that drivers talking on cell phones make more driving errors than drivers talking to passengers. Among the most common cell phone errors: drivers drifting out of …
I Hate Monday
What’s hateworthy this week? Today is, although in all fairness, I Hate Tuesday might be more appropriate this week. Together they present a potent and lethal one-two punch. To what am I referring? The most deadly few hours of the entire year on the roads are the first few hours of the year, early tomorrow morning. People will get tanked …