Texting and Driving

It Can Wait: A public service announcement from Cordova Wireless, your local communications company that cares

• In 2011, at least 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones. That’s 1.3 million crashes!
• 5 seconds is the minimal amount of time your attention is taken away from the road while texting. At 27 mph, that equals half the length of a football field without looking at the road.
• Texting makes a car crash up to 23 times more likely.
• Driving a vehicle while texting is 6 times more dangerous than driving while intoxicated (according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
• Texting in cars and trucks causes over 3000 deaths and 330,000 injuries per year, according to a Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study.
• Texting while driving a vehicle has now replaced drinking while driving as a leading cause of accidents and deaths of teenage drivers.
• Teens who text while driving spend approximately 10% of their driving time outside their lane.
• 63% of young drivers have seen their parents text or talk on the phone while driving, and 48% of kids aged 12-17 have been in a car while the driver is texting.

Take the pledge to never text and drive!