{"id":50645,"date":"2024-01-03T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/?p=50645"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:23:33","slug":"teen-distracted-driving-is-a-larger-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/teen-distracted-driving-is-a-larger-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"TEEN DISTRACTED DRIVING IS A LARGER PROBLEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent study discovered that teenage distracted driving is a contributing factor in many more car accidents than previous reports suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teenage distracted driving results in many fatal and injurious accidents in Ohio and throughout the country. However, a new study discovered that teenage distracted driving is a contributing factor in many more car accidents<\/a> than past reports have suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading forms of distraction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Prior estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suggested that distracted driving was a factor in 14 percent of collisions that involved teenage drivers. After analyzing in-vehicle video footage from approximately 1,700 teenage drivers, researchers at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that distraction was involved 58 percent of the time in the six seconds leading up to a motor vehicle accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many different forms of distraction that were seen in the video footage looked at by the researchers. However, some of the most common forms of distracted driving<\/a> among the teenage participants included the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n