Texting While Driving is on the Increase

Texting while driving has been an issue for sometime and you usually associate it with younger drivers, but I see a lotof older drivers with their phone in their hand and not paying to their surroundings when I am driving down the road. A study done by State Farm that states there has been a major increase in these behavior with drivers over 30 years of age.

Here are some of their findings:

• Ages 65+ 23% in 2011 to 39% in 2013
• Ages 50-64 44% in 2011 to 64% in 2013
• Ages 40-49 47% in 2011 to 82% in 3013
• Ages 30-39 60% in 2011 to 86% in 2013
• Ages 18-29 78% in 2011 to 86% in 2013

Even with the increase in hands-free phone devices and blue tooth in vehicles, our phones and more devices such as tablets and they do more all the time, Internet, twitter, emails, messengers, and I am sure there is somethings I don’t know or have.
If you are driving put down it down and drive safe, only takes a second to hurt you, your family, or others. It is not worth taking the chance of altering your life in such a negative way.

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