{"id":2085,"date":"2021-08-12T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=2085"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:02:24","slug":"distracted-driving","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/distracted-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracted Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Distracted driving is becoming an ever increasing cause of automobile accidents worldwide.&nbsp; In 2019, distracted driving caused 3.142 deaths and 400.000 injuries in the U.S. About 1 in 5 of the people who died in car crashes involved distracted driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distracted driving is defined as anything that takes your attention away from driving.&nbsp; There are three main types of distraction according the Transportation Safety Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Visual: Taking your eyes off the road;<\/li><li>Manual: Taking your hands off the wheel;<\/li><li>Cognitive: Taking your mind off driving.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sending a text message, talking on a cell phone, using a navigation system, eating while driving are a few examples of behaviors that constitute distracted driving. In fact, texting while driving has become such a massive problem that 48 states have banned texting and driving as of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the United States Department of Transportation, it takes 5 seconds to read a text message.&nbsp; During these 5 seconds that your eyes are off the road, a distracted driver driving at 55 miles per hour can drive the length of a football field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AAA foundation conducted a study in 2018 that found that texting while drive doubles the chances for a car accident.&nbsp; Aside from doubling your chances of an accident, texting triples the odds of going over a curb, leaving the road, crashing into a tree or colliding with a sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-five percent of the distracted drivers involved in fatal crashes were young adults aged 20-29.&nbsp; Drivers aged 15-19 were more likely to be distracted than drivers aged 20 and older, among drivers in crashes where someone died.&nbsp; Among these drivers, 8% of drivers 15-19 were distracted at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty-percent of teenagers believe that they have a smartphone addition problem.&nbsp; When you combine this addiction problem with this age group\u2019s inexperience in driving, it is literally an accident waiting to happen. In 2019, 39% of high school students who drove in the past 30 days texted or emailed while driving on at least one of those days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep your eyes on the road. Pay attention.&nbsp; Put your phone on do not disturb when driving.&nbsp; It can save lives.&nbsp; It can save your life!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2087,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[82],"class_list":["post-2085","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile-accidents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}