Almost one-in-four drivers check notifications while driving and 37% do not regularly practice safe mobile phone use behaviours
The use of mobile phone s in relation to road deaths is 'under-represented' in the data that we have, a transport consultant has said.
A Road Safety Authority survey from 2022 found almost one-in-four drivers check mobile phone notifications while driving.International research suggests drivers are four-times more likely to be involved in a collision if they use their mobile phone while driving.It's made up of 20 young people between the ages of 12 and 25 and will meet eight times over a two-year period.
"When a fatality or something really serious occurs that triggers suspicious death protocols for the Gardaí, they investigate forensically."But in a more routine event, let's say a minor injury, phone use remains hidden". A man uses a mobile phone in Rome, Italy in June 2017. Picture by: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. / Alamy Stock Photo"The driver obviously doesn't tell the insurance company, 'I was texting at the time I hit the tree'," he said."Alcohol is quite well researched, other drugs far less so".Mr Faughnan also acknowledged mobiles have likely saved more people on the roads.
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