What are young drivers distracted by seconds before the accident?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The study of 1,700 episodes preceding the accident gives a clear understanding of what circumstances lead to a traffic accident. We hope that the proposed videos and numbers will make you reconsider your driving behavior.

Someone considers a car a luxury item, and someone - a means of transportation. But both of them often forget that the car, among other things, does not cease to be a source of increased danger both for the driver himself and for other road users. And this short memory leads to accidents: from annoying damage to the body and abrasions on the arm to the fatal Hollywood rollover.

How to avoid trouble? Recommendations come from researchers at the nongovernmental AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. 1,700 recordings of video recorders installed in the cars of young Americans were deeply subjected to. And one of the cameras out of habit followed the road, and the second recorded what was happening in the cabin.

Of course, of course, it is useless to compare the "stupid" overseas teenagers with the seasoned drivers of our regions! But don't rush to make statements. Just watch a short video in which you will surely find a piece of your habits.

Eloquent and ordinary, isn't it? But an even more detailed picture is given by statistics, according to which the accident led to:

• driver interaction with one or more passengers - 15%;
• use of a cell phone - 12%;
• search for things in the cabin - 10%;
• distraction to objects and events outside the car - 9%;
• singing and "dancing" to music - 8%;
• beautification - 6%;
• attempts to reach objects - 6%.

Researchers separately note the harm of mobile tubes: out of six seconds before the accident, the driver did not look at the road for four seconds, which is why he did not have time to hit the brakes or turn the steering wheel.

Here is the answer to the question, why fine for using phones while driving.

Concluding the article, I would like to note that youth is a multifaceted concept. It can be considered both age and experience. Therefore, no matter what time you got your license and got behind the wheel, there is still little experience, just like those still green American drivers.

Admit it, how often and what are you distracted on the road?