Welcome to the Text
Free Driving Organization. We
are a group of concerned citizens who want to make
our highways, roadways and neighborhood streets as
safe as possible. Everyone knows that the use
of cellular phones while driving has reached epidemic
levels. This increased usage has caused countless
car accidents but driving while texting is even more
dangerous.
80% of crashes, and 65% of near crashes, involved some form of driver inattention
within 3 seconds of the event
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Texting requires the use of two hands and frequent
reference to the cellular telephone view screen. Obviously,
attempting to operate an automobile while texting is
recklessly dangerous.
57% of American
drivers admit to
texting behind the wheel.
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Our organization
hopes to raise the awareness of motorists to this growing
danger and to act as an information center for interested
citizen’s groups. We
will update this site with information for people to
use to lobby their own legislators to pass laws prohibiting
driving while texting.
89% of Americans
adults think
sending text messages or e-mails
while driving is distracting, dangerous
and
should be outlawed.
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Texting By the Numbers
- 1,000,000,000,000 >1 trillion texts sent in the US in 2009
- 790 - Average number of texts sent per month by 18-24 year olds▲
- 357 - Average number of monthly texts by all cell users▲
- 276 - Million cell phones in the U.S. in 2009*
- 204 - Average number of monthly voice calls by all cell users▲
- 124 - Billion text message sent per month in the U.S. in 2009*
- 91- % of the population with cell phones*
- 89 - % of people who want a ban on texting while driving^
- 80 - % crashes caused by distraction within 3 seconds of the event”
- 57 - % of drivers who text while driving^
- 53 - Feet traveled in an automobile in one second at 35 mph
- 43 - Annual cost of crashes caused by cell phones in billions ▼
- 28 - States that limit texting while driving
- 4.1 - Billion text messages sent per day in the U.S. in 2009
- #1 - Cause of death ages 16-52 - automobile crashes`
There are currently seventeen (17) bills, with more than 35 sponsors or co-sponsors, pending before the legislature to ban texting while driving. More cell users text than use their cell phones to talk. The time to text is not while driving.* The time has come to outlaw driving while texting.
▲Neilsen Mobile – 2009
* CTIA – The Wireless Association 2010
^ Harris Interactive 2007
▼Harvard Center of Risk Analysis
“ Va. Tech/NHTSA Survey 2006
` U.S Centers for Disease Control |
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Study measures danger of driving while texting
CLEMSON — As sales of electronic devices continue to soar, so does the amount of time motorists spend driving outside the yellow highway lines.
Text messaging and using iPods caused drivers to leave their lanes 10 percent more often in a simulated driving study conducted by researchers in the Clemson University psychology department.
The study tested drivers’ ability to stay in their lanes on a curvy road while they completed such tasks as talking on cell phones, text messaging and operating MP3 players. Read more.
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