While distracted driving, particularly involving cell phone use, has become a nationwide if not international issue, distracted walking has received less focus. Yet we know that with the number of people driving distracted today, it is all the more important that pedestrians exercise the utmost of safety while walking and especially when crossing streets.
You’d never think of drinking and driving, but what about talking on a cell phone while driving? It might surprise you that a conversation on a cell phone slows reaction time as much as driving with a blood alcohol level of .08%. In fact, some studies showed that talking on a cell phone resulted in
It may be true that, “if you want a friend, get a dog,” but a recent study shows, when you get in the car, you should leave the dog at home, especially if you’re a senior citizen.
“This past weekend, on April 6, we celebrated my daughter Casey’s 25th birthday. But Casey wasn’t there. She was killed in 2009 by a distracted driver, a 58-year-old man behind the wheel of a van. He took his eyes off the road for just a few seconds. Pink was Casey’s favorite color, so we released pink balloons in her memory….” Read the post of Casey’s father, Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD.org on the U.S. DOT site.
By Joel Feldman: April is National Distracted Driving Awareness month and I will be participating in events next week as Pennsylvania and Delaware join other states in announcing the adoption of distracted driving awareness initiatives for April. I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to personally speak with more than 10,000 teens and adults over the last year as part of The Casey Feldman Foundation’s EndDD.org program.
The EndDD.org presentation was taken to teens in Nevada this past week with a training session also for Nevada volunteer speakers who will continue to spread the effort throughout the state. Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD.org and father of Casey Feldman, who was killed by a distracted driver in 2009, spearheaded the effort, talking to
Joel Feldman holds a picture of his daughter, Casey, while he discusses the dangers of distracted driving during a driver education class at Longmont High School in CO.
In the largest study of its kind to date, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report last month revealing that 4.2% of drivers reported falling asleep at the wheel within the previous 30 days.
As part of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CIRP draws upon experts from the fields of emergency medicine, pediatric trauma, pediatric and adolescent development, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioengineering, computational engineering, psychology, behavioral development, communications, and health education. Of particular interest is a fact sheet on the science of crash investigation. There’s a whole lot more
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