Distracted driving has increasingly captured the public’s attention as a serious cause of auto accidents. It is now widely agreed that distracted driving is more dangerous than drunk driving. Texting while driving is often considered to be the primary cause of distracted driving accidents. Distracted driving is not limited just to using a cell phone while simultaneously operating a motor vehicle. It can also involve situations where a driver might be distracted by children or pets in the car, or by other in-car devices such as a music player or satellite navigation equipment or DVD player. This blog will give you some useful information about this issue and I think will be a point of brainstorming on this important reason of the fatal road accidents.

            The following link is the official US government website for the distracted driving: http://www.distraction.gov/stats-and-facts/ 

            On this page, various forms and causes of most the fatal road accidents were discussed while the driver was involved in some activity that distracted him/her from the driving. A person can be distracted visually, manually or cognitively while using a cell phone, Eating and drinking, Talking to others in the car, involved in personal Grooming (brushing hair or doing makeup), reading, including maps, Using GPS, watching a video, Changing the radio station or CD or yelling on the other drivers’ mistake. 

            Along with the above causes the page also gives some results from researches conducted about the distracted driving which is quite useful to read. Some data reported by the police is also given showing the incidents on the highways during past years.