The article had a lot of very interesting information, and some of it is very scary when you think about it. It is very interesting to see the difference between the habits about texting between girls and boys. It is also interesting to see that only about 64% of parents know about the context of the text messages on their children's phones, especially when about 15% of them have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude messages. Another disturbing piece of data is about the cell phone use and driving. This is a scary statistic: 48% of all teens ages 12-17 say that they have been in a car when the driver was texting. I assume that this doesn't refer only to classmates or other teens, but also parents and other adults.
This is some information I found on http://www.distraction.gov/stats-and-facts/Research on distracted driving reveals some surprising facts:
-20 percent of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving. (NHTSA).
-Of those killed in distracted-driving-related crashed, 995 involved reports of a cell phone as a distraction (18% of fatalities in distraction-related crashes). (NHTSA)
-In 2009, 5,474 people were killed in U.S. roadways and an estimated additional 448,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes that were reported to have involved distracted driving. (FARS and GES)
-The age group with the greatest proportion of distracted drivers was the under-20 age group – 16 percent of all drivers younger than 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving. (NHTSA)
-Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. (Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)
-Using a cell phone while driving, whether it’s hand-held or hands-free, delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (Source: University of Utah)
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