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The distracted driving epidemic

At any given time during the day, there are about 660,000 drivers trying to use their phones while their vehicles are in motion.

- According to the National Safety Council, cell phone use while driving results in approximately 1.6 million car crashes every year.
About 330,000 injuries occur every year from accidents caused by texting while driving.

- About 25 percent of all accidents in the United States are caused by texting while driving.

- Texting while driving is six times more likely to lead to an accident than driving while impaired due to alcohol.

- The amount of time it takes to answer a text is five seconds, on average. When traveling at 55 miles per hour (average highway speed), that is about enough time to travel the entire length of a football field without looking at the road.

- Texting while driving leads to a 400 percent increase in the amount of time a driver spends with his or her eyes off the road.

- About 21 percent of teenage drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.

- Teenagers are four times more likely than adult drivers to get into accidents when using their cell phones. That risk doubles when they have a passenger and becomes five times more likely when there are two or more passengers.

- Approximately one quarter of all teenagers respond to at least one text message every time they drive.

Those who are bringing up 'do not disturb' apps and so called "free" apps have not demo'd the bSafemobile app or the Fleetsafer app and have absolutely NO IDEA.