Cell Phones and Children are causing more auto accidents than you think.
Have you recently been driving on the road and a driver inexplicably changes lanes, or slows or drives in a manner that gives you very little predictability of their next move or action. When you pulled up to their car or saw the person in the window, were you appalled buy the fact that they were oblivious to you and the danger they posed on the road, talking on their cell phone without a care in the world.
Auto cell phone usage has climbed remarkably in the last several years. So destructive can be the accident or injury when these people are distracted, that recent legislation banned certain behavior and requires more use of earpieces and hand free devices. If it gets bad enough, usage in the automobile might be banned altogether.
But driver distraction is not new to most of us. Have you had the same experience as above, but seen the driver turned, looking at or attending to a child in the back seat of their car. Remember, when I was young I could ride in the front seat, within easy reach of my mother’s backhand. Children and air bags do not mix and we now relegate the back of the car as the child’s playground. Which scenario is worse, the cell phone user focused on nothing but their lovely afternoon discussion or the parent distracted by the unruly child.
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