When we get behind the wheel we are not aware of the amount of distractions that we are subjected and which could be the cause of a traffic accident. Please, be careful and try to avoid them.
According to the DGT, since July 1 there have been 154 fatalities on our roads. One of the main causes of road accidents is distracted driving. Have clear what they are? We’ll give you some examples:
– Lighting a cigarette. Something really common while driving. You should know that it takes about 4 seconds to turn it on, so we travel 133 meters distracted.
– In the case of tuning the radio, it takes about 6 seconds until you find the station that we like (often spent over 6 seconds to find it) and that means that we walk 200 meters without paying the necessary attention to the road.
– It gets stronger when we respond to a phone call, you have been distracted for 266 meters. And if it’s us who carry the call, we get to walk 432 meters without paying attention behind the wheel.
– Finally, the GPS is the worst of our distractions, because while we type our destination had pending 500 meters of the screen and not the steering wheel and / or the road.
So if you have to travel by car this holiday then make sure that all these actions can distract and harm are assumed by the copilot.