Communication
Technology
Alcohol
General
Other Distractions
100
This profession is responsible for preventing countless deaths each year by designing safer roads. *Hint: This is also the best job in the world!
What is Civil Engineering / Transportation Engineering?
100
This is the number of times an average driver looks at a navigation system in one minute while driving.
What is 10 times?
100
Alcohol is a depressant drug, which means that consumption of alcohol can slow down this major body function.
What is the nervous system?
100
How much more likely are distracted drivers to get in a crash than drivers without distractions?
What is four times as likely?
100
Two or more passengers increases the risk of fatal crashes by this much for teen drivers.
What is three times as much?
200
This is the amount of teens that die each day as a result of texting and driving.
What is 11 teens? 330,000 injuries occur each year from texting while driving.
200
This is the most common human issue when using navigation (GPS) in vehicles.
What is overconfidence?
200
The part of the brain that controls thinking and judgement decisions is known as the cerebrum. When the effect of the alcohol reaches the cerebrum, the brain is less able to process this.
What is sensible decision making?
200
The percentage of the U.S. population that cannot multitask effectively.
What is 97%?
200
Even though it increases your risk of a crash by 3.6 times, roughly 75% of people admit to doing this while driving.
What is eating?
300
This is the minimum time your attention is taken away from the road when you text while driving.
What is 5 seconds? When travelling at 55 mph, this amounts to driving the length of a football field without looking at the road.
300
This is the amount in fines a first-time offender will be charged for distracted driving in Oregon.
What is $500?
300
Alcohol influence in the cerebrum has a negative effect on this.
What is vision?
300
Alcohol related crashes in the U.S. cost this much each year.
What is $59 Billion?
300
This is the percentage of passenger deaths for vehicles driven by teens.
What is 52%?
400
This is the amount of text messages sent during the month of June 2014.
What is 561,000,000,000 text messages?
400
These are five organizations involved in transportation safety. All of them start with the letter "E".
What are Emergency medical responders, Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Economics?
400
Large amounts of alcohol impact the cerebellum. Once alcohol reaches the cerebellum, this becomes slowed.
What is the body's reflex reaction?
400
The fatal crash rate for drivers 16-19 years old is nearly this much higher than it is for drivers 20 years old and over.
What is three times?
400
The most dangerous food or beverage, aside from alcohol, to consume while driving.
What is coffee?
500
At any given moment, this is the amount of drivers across America that are using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving.
What is 660,000 drivers?
500
List 5 forms of distracted driving.
What are texting, using a cell phone, eating/drinking, talking to passengers, grooming, reading (including maps), using a navigation system, watching a video, adjusting a radio? Any activity that could divert a person's attention away from the primary task of driving.
500
Also, when the cerebellum is impacted, general vision becomes blurred, and the person experiences this.
What is loss of depth perception and peripheral vision?
500
In 2013, this many people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 31% of all traffic-related deaths in the U.S.
What is 10,076 people?
500
This percentage of teen drivers admit to being pressured by passengers to speed or engage in other risky driving behavior.
What is 62%?
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