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2003 European Drunk Driving Statistics

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... NEJM) stated that cell phone users are four to five hundred percent more likely to get into traffic accidents than those who do not use them (Morgan Lee Dot Org, 2003). The NEJM article also revealed that the risk of having a traffic accident while using a cell phone is the same as that while driving drunk. Research work by Violanti in 1998 studied data from 223, 137 traffic crashes in Oklahoma from 1992-1995 and concluded that there is a nine-fold increase risk of fatality when cell phones are used while driving.
Contrary to popular belief, cell phone use is more distracting than other activities (An investigation of the safety implications of wireless communications in vehicles. 1997). A study by McKnight and McKnight in 1991 found that manual dialing can be more disruptive than manually tuning a radio. Subjective assessments by test participants indicated that they were aware ...

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