Car phone users ‘four times more likely to crash’
July 12th, 2005 | by amarfresh |The Mail Online points to a study completed by the University of Sydney in Australia which interviewed hundreds of cell phone users who had a car accident while talking on the phone. The results come as no surprise - talking and driving is dangerous.
hey interviewed the drivers in hospital, where they were recovering from cuts, bruises, sprains, fractures and spine injuries.
The researchers then looked at the drivers’ phone records immediately before each crash happened, and compared these with their phone records during trips at the same time of day, 24 hours, 72 hours and seven days earlier.
They found that 40 of the drivers - almost ten per cent - were on the phone in the ten minutes before the crash. In the earlier ‘control’ periods, only three per cent had been using their phones. By comparing the crash period and these ‘control periods’, they found that using a mobile phone increased the risk of crashing four-fold.
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