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WHY DO PEOPLEDRIVE DISTRACTED?There are three very common ways why people getdistracted while driving even though it is dangerous.INSIDE: A graph about many ways people get distracted whiledriving A quote showing statistics about distracted driving pictures of ways people get distracted while driving A true story about a person who had an expierience withdistracted driving.

THE 3 MAIN REASONS WHYDISTRACTED DRIVERS GETDISTRACTEDThe 3 most common ways drivers get distracted are byusing their phone, daydreaming/zoning out, and havingother passengers in the carUsing your phoneBy: Brady Foil“A teenage girl received 240 driving, they should put downhours of community service their phone because you canafter an accident caused by never be too cautious whenher texting while she wasdriving. Experts say that,driving. Despite being told“Texting while driving is farto stop texting eight or ninemore dangerous distractiontimes by a passenger in thecompared to eating, talking,adjusting music or using incar, the teenager continuedvehicle navigation systems,to do so, even telling herbecause it takes a person’sfriend that she didn’t care ifeyes off the road for longer andshe crashed. As she wastexting, she drove through a more frequently.” Using yourphone while driving is extremelyred light and in doing socrashed into another vehicle dangerous.killing a man and his tenyear-old daughter. ”This isbecause she was using herphone and driving which isone of the many dangerousways you can get distractedwhile driving. Althoughsome people argue thatthey can multitask while

DaydreamingAnother major problemthat needs attention isdaydreaming whiledriving. 61% out of65,000 fatal crasheshappened because thedriver was daydreaming.Researchers have found,“While your consciousmind wanders off, yoursubconscious takes overthe wheel. Yes, anemergency can jar youback to full awareness,but your reaction timeand sense of perceptionwill suffer when you'renot paying full attention.”Luckily, there are ways to61% out of 65,000fatal crashes werecaused bydaydreamingdrivershelp prevent daydreamingwhile driving. The first way ischanging your gaze every 2-3seconds, so your eyes keepmoving. The other way iskeeping your self alert bychewing crunchy foods,imagining what-if scenarios,or changing up your routes.Day dreaming while driving isvery unsafe so if you findyourself start to daydream onthe road use on of thesetactics.

“When you’re distracted, who’s driving?”Other passengersDid you know that morethan half of distracteddriving accidents werecaused by conversationswith passengers.According to research,“Interacting withpassengers is the mostcommon secondaryactivity we do whiledriving. Obviously don’tuse your phone whiledriving, but also makesure, you are focusing ondriving despite everythingelse going on in your car, orwhat your shotgun rider isdoing.” An interesting factis that adults and infantsare 4 times moredistracting than youngchildren. Next time you aredriving remember not to getdistracted and encourageothers to do the same.

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distracted while driving even though it is dangerous. INSIDE: A graph about many ways people get distracted while driving A quote showing statistics about distracted driving pictures of ways people get distracted while driving A true story about a person who had an expierience with distracted driving.

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