Historically, distracted driving causes unsafe driving. Cell phones and other mobile devices create an even larger distracted driving problem. A driver taking his or her eyes off the road for two seconds doubles the chance of being involved in a crash. Review the staggering U.S. statistics below. Remember, distracted driving can easily be prevented. Implement a policy in the workplace to detour employees from driving distracted.
- Automobile accidents rank as one of the leading causes of death.
- A person dies in an automobile accident every 11 minutes.
- One in four work-related fatalities involve a motor vehicle accident.
- Distracted driving kills an average of 9 people and injures more than 1,000 daily.
- Someone incurs an injury in an automobile accident every 18 seconds.
- In 2017, Alabama reported a traffic crash every 200 seconds.