Maybe your boss wants the latest numbers from today's sales meeting, or a friend wants to set up a place to meet for drinks. Traffic is backed up and you know it would take less than a minute to type a response with your thumbs, so you do.
There is little risk here, you think. And then it happens ... the person in front of you stops more quickly than you expected and you crash into them.
During the claims process your insurance company starts checking your cell-phone communications in the run-up to the accident. Now you've just lost a claim and a heck of a lot of money, all because that text was oh-so important.
A growing problem
If you avoid text messaging in your car, you stand a substantially reduced chance of a loss of a claim or, indeed, a loss of life, recent studies suggest. Texting while driving, or fiddling with myriad devices including
These measures are in response to a ream of statistics that suggest DWT is a growing danger. In various accredited published studies, some 46 percent of drivers ages 16 to 17 admit to texting while driving. our cell phone, BlackBerry or GPS system, is a leading factor in accidents across the nation.
Watch this video the latest from the government ( NOT SUTABLE FOR UNDER 18)
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