Distracted Driving
This type of distraction involves taking your eyes off the road.
What is a Visual distraction?
Answering a text takes your eyes off the road for an average of this many seconds.
What is 4.6 (or 5) seconds?
This is considered the number one source of driving distraction today.
What is a cell phone?
To avoid distraction, you should finish this morning meal before you start the car.
What is breakfast (or eating)?
This drug interferes with depth perception while driving.
What is cannabis (or marijuana or THC)
This type happens when you take your hands off the steering wheel to reach for an object or change the radio.
What is a Manual distraction?
At 55 mph, taking your eyes off the road for 5 seconds is like driving the length of an entire one of these with your eyes closed.
What is a football field?
This term refers to the act of slowing down to look at an accident on the side of the road.
What is rubbernecking? (or gawking)
If you must use your phone or GPS, you should do this first to ensure safety.
What is pull over and park?
This drug is not allowed to be open inside of your vehicle while driving at any age.
What is alcohol?
This type occurs when your mind wanders or you are thinking about something other than driving.
What is a Cognitive distraction?
Distractions are a factor in roughly this many million motor vehicle crashes in North America each year.
What is 4 million?
These people in your vehicle can often be a major source of distraction, especially for new drivers.
What are passengers?
To avoid "highway hypnosis," you should frequently do this with your eyes.
What is shift them (or keep them moving)?
This drug involves a roadside sobriety test to see if your eyes move in a certain way thsat determines if you have been using.
What is cannabis? Marijuana or THC also fine
Texting while driving is especially dangerous because it involves all three types: visual, manual, and this.
What is cognitive?
For teen drivers, distractions (including passengers) account for 6 out of every 10 of these.
What are crashes?
This common morning activity involves using a brush or mirror while behind the wheel.
What is grooming?
Before you begin your trip, you should set your destination in this system.
What is the GPS (or navigation system)?
This person gets a ticket for drugs in a vehicle even if they were not suing at all.
Who is the driver?
This term describes a specific cognitive distraction where a driver's awareness and focus drift from the driving task.
What is driver inattention?
Texting while driving increases your risk of a crash by this many times compared to a focused driver.
What is 23x?
Even with two hands on the wheel, this common technology can still cause a cognitive distraction.
What is a hands-free device?
This is a responsible thing to do with your music or radio volume so you can still hear sirens or other vehicles.
What is keep it at a low volume? (reasonable volume)
If these are in place (even if a car is not moving) a person in the driver seat can get a ticket for druigged/drunk driving if they are intoxicated.
What are keys? or keys in ignition. or keys in vehicle.