Texting and Driving

Have some numbers

• 3,328 people died in 2012
• 421,000 people were injured
• Globally this number is 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries.

Untitled Slide

• The dangers of texting and driving
• Driving aid assistance
• Ways to minimize the problem

Driving Blind

• It's scary!
• Your eyes are taken off the road for at least 5 seconds
• In 2011 23% of collisions involved cell phones

Driving aid

• It's frustrating!
• They do not all work very efficiently

How can we fix the problem?

• Put the phone away
• Know where you're going

Citation

• Add first list Siniff, J. (2014, Aug 05). Distracted driving hits home—hard. USA TODAY Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.comezp.tccd.edu here