Well, here’s some definite bad news: more people are driving while using mobile phones.
Honestly, it seems to be even more prevalent than drunk driving. While there are plenty of people who are actually disciplined enough to park their car to receive a call or to just wait until they reach their destination before fiddling with a mobile device, the rest of society seems perfectly alright while texting and driving.
While we can bore you with all the statistics and percentages (they’re pretty scary), the real point is easily missed, so here’s the basic idea: tell everyone you know to forget minding their phones when driving.
Regardless if you receive a call, a text message, an email or a Facebook status update alert, there is never a good reason to distract one’s self while driving. Using the phone while driving is worse than being drunk; drunk driving is equally illegal, but at least most people feel guilty about it. A lot of people, despite being aware of the laws against the use of mobile phones while driving, still consider the act as a perfectly normal thing to do.
What many fail to realize that driving while distracted means that they are a danger not only to themselves, but also to their passengers, other drivers and worst of all, pedestrians.
Police are now known to check with mobile phone records to see if the driver was indeed using the mobile device while driving. Insurance companies are also considering the use of mobile phones as a basis for deciding whether to approve applications.
Officials have also recognized the need to increase sanctions against violators; hopefully, this will help curb the trend of irresponsible use of mobile phones while driving.
To get the cold hard numbers about folks using mobile phones while driving, head on over to Mobile Today UK.
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