There Is No "Cover Up" To Safe Driving

What is Distracted Driving?

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• Talking or texting on your phone
• Eating and drinking
• Talking to people in your vehicle
• Fiddling with the stereo, entertainment or navigation system
• Anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving

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Top Four other distraction while driving:

• Lost in thought (68%)
• Outside event (12%)
• Eating or drinking (7%)
• Other occupants (5%)

What is the death rate of drinking and driving?

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• Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 29% of total vehicle traffic fatalities in 2015.
• Between 1991 and 2015, the rate of drunk driving fatalities per 100,000 has decreased 49%, nationally, and 68% among those under 21.

How big is the problem?

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• Of the 209 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2014, over half (116) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.

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• In 2014, over 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That's one percent of the 121 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.

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• Of the 1,070 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2014, 209 (19%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.

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• In 2014, 9,967 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.

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Here is a video over drinking and driving:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6OqMgqtlo4

Why You Should Wear Seatbelts

• It has been a proven fact wearing a seat belt reduces the rate of serious injuries and deaths in car crashes by 50%.
• One of the main reasons seatbelts are so helpful is that they prevent people from being ejected from the car during the crash.

Oklahoma Car Crashes

• A total of 678 people lost their lives in traffic accidents on Oklahoma highways, streets and roads in 2013.
• Approximately 333 of them were drivers or passengers of cars or trucks who were not wearing safety restraints.
• That’s 394 traffic deaths, far more than half (58%) of our state’s annual fatality total.

Facts Regarding Seatbelt Usage

• Car accidents are the leading cause of death among those aged 5 to 35 in Oklahoma.
• The most reliable method of saving lives and preventing injuries from occurring is to wear a seat belt.
• However, millions of drivers and passengers choose not to wear seat belts on an everyday bases.

Texting and Driving

• The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.
• 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
• Texting while driving is 6 times more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
• Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.
• Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
• Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.

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• Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.

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• Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.

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• Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.

Here is a short video about texting while driving

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJB9WQhEXY0

How To Avoid Texting While Driving

• Turn your phone on silent.
• Turn your cell phone completely off.
• Put your phone out of reach.
• If it cannot wait, safely pull over and stop to text.

What is Oklahoma doing about all of this?

• Oklahoma became the 46th state to ban texting while driving.
• In Oklahoma it is illegal to read or compose or send a message, email, photos or video while driving a moving vehicle.
• Oklahoma laws require anyone aged 13 or older in the front seat must wear a seat belt.
• Children aged 6-12 must sit in the rear and wear a seat belt.
• Children aged 5 and younger must sit in the rear and be in a car seat and always buckled up.
• There has been more causes of death with under aged drinking and driving in Oklahoma.

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