Text Driving Culprits
A study released Friday by The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project says adults and teenagers are equally likely to have texted while driving. And adults are more likely to have chatted on their phones while driving.
The study found that 47 percent of adults who text reported sending or reading texts while behind the wheel.
The study also found that adults are much more likely to chat on their phones while driving: 75 percent of adults with mobile phones said they talked and drove. 52% of teenagers with cell phones said they did so in last year’s study.
That would translate into a finding that 61% of all United States adults talk on the phone while driving, while the 2009 study indicates that 43% of all 16 and 17 year old.
Even when not driving, adults are still engrossed in their phones: The study said that 17 percent of adults who have cell phones reported walking into other people or things because they were so busy using their phones to text or chat.
The survey used telephone interviews with 2,252 adults between April 29 and May 30. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
So don’t blame or think that only teenagers are the ones committing all the text and talking on the phone violations while driving. You might want to look in the mirror first before you criticize your kids.