Unic Press UK: The outcome of a study involving hundreds of thousands of drivers illustrates that fifty-two percent of car crashes occurred due to mobile phone distractions, the Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) said.
The key findings of the CMT study included:
- Distracted driving occurred during 52 percent of trips that resulted in a crash.
- On drives that involved a crash, the average duration of distraction was 135 seconds.
- Phone distraction lasts for two minutes or more on 20 percent of drives with distraction, and often occurs at high speeds: 29 percent at speeds exceeding 56 miles per hour.
- The worst 10 percent of distracted drivers are 2.3 times more likely to be in a crash than the average driver, and 5.8 times more likely than the best 10 percent of distracted drivers.
