What is it with BMW’s today? This distracted driving thing has become a much larger problem than I had ever imagined it would. I was sitting at a traffic light in my Yukon when, BAM! We were hit from behind by a brand new white BMW convertible. Guess what? The driver told me he was looking at his phone. There was a little white paint on my hitch receiver, but his front bumper was messed up pretty bad.
Later this evening, I was next to another BMW at a traffic light. The light turned green and we both pulled away. He began to drift over into my lane. His dome light was on and I could see he was looking down. He got back in his lane and drifted back into my lane three more times before I turned into our neighborhood. When I say he was drifting into my lane, I mean that his car was literally half way into my lane! I blew my horn at him to get his attention. He momentarily looked up, got back into his lane, then his head went straight back down. I think it’s time to invest in a dash cam so that I can show people just how bad their driving is.
Here are just a few distracted driving statistics:
- Over 2.5 million people in the U.S. are involved in wrecks each year. The population of the US is just 318.9 million. At this rate, the American people could be extinct in two human lifespans. This is an astounding number of traffic crashes.
- Of these, 1.6 million have a cell phone involved in them. That’s 64% of all the road crashes in the United States. Over half the road crashes in the States have cell phones involved, and if this doesn’t make you realize just how potent it is, what will?
37,000+ people die in automobile crashes in the U.S every year. - Every year, about 421,000 people are injured in crashes that have involved a driver who was distracted in some way.
- Each year, over 330,000 traffic wrecks caused by texting while driving lead to severe injuries. This means that over 78% of all distracted drivers are distracted because they have been texting while driving.
http://distracteddriveraccidents.com/25-shocking-distracted-driving-statistics/
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