Distracted Driving Safety - The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP
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2014-12-29
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The next time you go to drive your car, please remember that all it takes is 2 seconds to click, versus a possible lifetime of being crippled.
2. Along these same lines, I want to touch upon driving a vehicle with vulnerable passengers.
Please note that states have requirements for children to have proper seating and restraints dependent upon the child’s height, weight and
age. It goes without saying that you can never let a child drive with you without wearing a seatbelt.
Car seats and boosters have been shown to decrease the likelihood of a child getting injured in a car accident by up to 70%.
You must familiarize yourself with your state’s requirements for the proper car seat for your child, whether it be a car seat, low-back booster, high-back booster or the like.
Also, PLEASE Do not let rear passengers sit w/out a seatbelt. Some States have passed laws requiring all passengers, even adults who are rear passengers, to buckle up.
3. THE NEXT DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIOR THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TOUCH UPON IS Texting and Driving – there is no text or e-mail worth your life, your kid’s life or someone else’s life who you didn’t see b/c YOU had to finish the text. EVEN JENNY MCARTHY’S 12 YEAR OLD SON GETS THE IMPORT OF THIS AS HE CALLED THE POLICE LAST WEEK
WHEN HIS MOTHER WAS DRIVING WHILE TEXTING.
In some states it is even illegal for someone to send you a text when they’re aware that you’re driving, so you may want to avoid getting your friends in trouble by responding to a text while driving.
COUNTLESS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CAR ACCIDENT IS TREMENDOUSLY INCREASED WHEN YOU TEXT AND DRIVE, SO PLEASE, DO NOT DO IT. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT SENDING OR RESPONDING TO A
TEXT, REMEMBER THIS: ACCORDING TO A RECENT STUDY, Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded.
4. Other Forms of Distracted Driving: Talking on Your CellPhone,
Adjusting Your Navigation System/Radio, Eating & Grooming – You need to act like an adult and realize that when you’re multi-tasking while driving distracted, you’re asking for trouble.
THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT SENDING OR RESPONDING TO A TEXT, REMEMBER THIS: ACCORDING TO A RECENT STUDY, Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded.
5. Driving Intoxicated – Aside from the very real chance of losing your license if caught, you’re basically driving a murder weapon when you drive drunk. I DON’T NEED TO BORE YOU WITH THE FACTS AND STATISTICES ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF SEVERE AND FATAL CAR ACCIDENTS WHEN SOMEONE GOT BEHIND THE WHEEL AFTER CONSUMING SOME ALCOHOL; YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.
PLEASE DO NOT LET SOMEONE ELSE GET BEHIND A WHEEL IF YOU KNOW THEY HAVE CONSUMED ALCOHOL.
6. OTHER ALL TOO COMMON DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIORS ARE
Speeding & Aggressive
2. Along these same lines, I want to touch upon driving a vehicle with vulnerable passengers.
Please note that states have requirements for children to have proper seating and restraints dependent upon the child’s height, weight and
age. It goes without saying that you can never let a child drive with you without wearing a seatbelt.
Car seats and boosters have been shown to decrease the likelihood of a child getting injured in a car accident by up to 70%.
You must familiarize yourself with your state’s requirements for the proper car seat for your child, whether it be a car seat, low-back booster, high-back booster or the like.
Also, PLEASE Do not let rear passengers sit w/out a seatbelt. Some States have passed laws requiring all passengers, even adults who are rear passengers, to buckle up.
3. THE NEXT DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIOR THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TOUCH UPON IS Texting and Driving – there is no text or e-mail worth your life, your kid’s life or someone else’s life who you didn’t see b/c YOU had to finish the text. EVEN JENNY MCARTHY’S 12 YEAR OLD SON GETS THE IMPORT OF THIS AS HE CALLED THE POLICE LAST WEEK
WHEN HIS MOTHER WAS DRIVING WHILE TEXTING.
In some states it is even illegal for someone to send you a text when they’re aware that you’re driving, so you may want to avoid getting your friends in trouble by responding to a text while driving.
COUNTLESS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CAR ACCIDENT IS TREMENDOUSLY INCREASED WHEN YOU TEXT AND DRIVE, SO PLEASE, DO NOT DO IT. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT SENDING OR RESPONDING TO A
TEXT, REMEMBER THIS: ACCORDING TO A RECENT STUDY, Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded.
4. Other Forms of Distracted Driving: Talking on Your CellPhone,
Adjusting Your Navigation System/Radio, Eating & Grooming – You need to act like an adult and realize that when you’re multi-tasking while driving distracted, you’re asking for trouble.
THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT SENDING OR RESPONDING TO A TEXT, REMEMBER THIS: ACCORDING TO A RECENT STUDY, Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded.
5. Driving Intoxicated – Aside from the very real chance of losing your license if caught, you’re basically driving a murder weapon when you drive drunk. I DON’T NEED TO BORE YOU WITH THE FACTS AND STATISTICES ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF SEVERE AND FATAL CAR ACCIDENTS WHEN SOMEONE GOT BEHIND THE WHEEL AFTER CONSUMING SOME ALCOHOL; YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.
PLEASE DO NOT LET SOMEONE ELSE GET BEHIND A WHEEL IF YOU KNOW THEY HAVE CONSUMED ALCOHOL.
6. OTHER ALL TOO COMMON DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIORS ARE
Speeding & Aggressive
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