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Driving data of more than 100,000 vehicle operators show that half of car crashes involved a driver distracted by a phone at some point in the trip, while one in four drivers used a phone within a minute of a crash, according to a new study.
In coordination with Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) released a
study on Monday underscoring that phone distractions are a major source of dangerous driving and car wrecks in the US. The company creates mobile apps that measure driving behavior.
One in four drivers who crashed were using a phone during or mere moments before the accident, CMT said.
Meanwhile, distracted driving occurred at some point during 52 percent of car trips that resulted in a crash, CMT's study found.
"This is a big problem for drivers and bikes and pedestrians," said Hari Balakrishnan, chief technology officer of CMT,
according to the
Chicago Tribune. "It's a fairly dominant factor in determining whether you have a crash."
Comment: Yet another completely innocent unarmed man is now dead, because U.S. police officers simply act without thinking, knowing they will in all likelihood be absolved of any wrongdoing.
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