Driving Distractions - Eliminate Them! Written by Viall Insurance Agency on Sep 26, 2022
Eliminating Distractions A recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has reported that “nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before the event. Primary causes of driver inattention are distracting activities, such as cell phone use, and drowsiness.” Some of the highest risk distractions while driving are reaching for a moving object, an insect in your vehicle, looking at an object outside ...
