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1. #TEXTING WHILE DRIVING VERSUS UNDISTRACTED DRIVING DRIVERS#
2. #TEXTING WHILE DRIVING VERSUS UNDISTRACTED DRIVING DRIVER#

And according to a Pew survey from that same year, 40% of American teens say they have been in a car when a driver used a cell phone in a way that put them in danger.Īnd it's hardly just an American problem. On the US government's Distracted Driving website, it says that more than 16% of all teens involved in fatal crashes in 2009 were reported to have been distracted.

Moreover, 71% of them said they had seen a peer do so. In the US, Consumer Reports recently released a survey in which 30% of respondents (young people aged 16 to 21) admitted to texting while driving in the past month. Statistics confirm that distracted driving is a real problem. I better not check my text messages.' Their attitude is more like, 'Oh, I have a message, I better check that.'" "When those young people get in a car, they don't think, 'Oh, I'm driving. "RYD has been fighting against impaired driving (under the influence of alcohol and drugs) for years, but now, with new technologies, the statistics show that distractions cause one quarter of all vehicle crashes."Ĭell phone use, Druart says, is high on the list of distractions, especially among young people who are constantly on their phones, checking messages and surfing the internet. "Worldwide, vehicle crashes are the biggest cause of mortality of youngsters between 15 and 24 years of age," says Axel Druart, RYD's European Project Director.

#TEXTING WHILE DRIVING VERSUS UNDISTRACTED DRIVING DRIVERS#

And the point is simple: to teach young drivers about the dangers of sending text messages while driving. It's from an educational video made by an organization called Responsible Young Drivers (RYD). This isn't a scene from some new Belgian surrealist film. They both look out over a closed driving course dotted with orange traffic cones. "Plenty of people will crash," the student tells the instructor. It must look authentic, because the student believes that this will, eventually, be a part of his final driving exam.

The driving instructor, who has trained as an actor in the past, tells the kid, "Look, I didn't invent this." The instructor then hands over what he says is a government document detailing the new regulations. He has just been told about a "new law" that requires all Belgian drivers to be able to send a text message, correctly spelled and punctuated, while driving. He's behind the wheel of a car, about to take a driving lesson with a Belgian driving instructor. Even those not fluent in French could guess the young man is using some colourful language.Īs another torrent leaves his mouth, he raises his hands to stifle a nervous chuckle.