Distracted Driving Project

Category: Research

Research surrounding Distracted Driving

Canadians rank distracted driving as biggest threat when it comes to road deaths, especially mobile-use: Research

40% of Canadians say distracted driving No. 1 threat of car deaths: survey
— Toronto Sun, February 26, 2020

Should Saskatchewan’s steep, escalating, fines for violating handheld ban be available to being worked-off if it otherwise means losing between a tenth to a fifth of income?

Saskatchewan’s new distracted driving fines disproportionately punish people in poverty: professor
— Global News, February 21, 2020

Distraction was biggest killer (again) on New Jersey roads in 2018 — driver’s cellphone-use caused the most crashes

Making a call, texting, and drinking coffee killed the most drivers last year in N.J.
— N.J.com, December 28, 2019

App’s data shows hands-free ‘laws are having an effect but they aren’t in enough states to affect the overall levels dramatically’: Research

Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying.
— Bloomberg, December 5, 2019

So far, 2019 distracted driving-related crashes have killed more on Ontario’s roads than impaired driving

Smartphones, other distractions can be more deadly than impaired driving, data suggests
— CBC News, October 29, 2019

Hands-free or not, phone calls pull attention away from driver’s brain — ‘you tend to create pictures in your head’ when no one else is in the car: Research

This is why using a hands-free phone while driving is also dangerous
— WalesOnline, August 13, 2019