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UK study - Food-drivers as deadly as phone-drivers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...318415,00.html Eating and driving is as risky as using a phone at the wheel By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent DRIVERS who eat and drink at the wheel are twice as likely to have a crash, a study has indicated. They try to compensate for the distractions of eating and drinking by driving more slowly and carefully, but they are often unable to brake in time to avoid a collision. The risk is similar to using a handheld mobile phone while driving, for which the fixed penalty is to be raised from a £30 to a £60 fine plus three points. Road safety groups said that the absence of any legislation or clear guidance on the dangers of eating and drinking while driving encouraged motorists to think it was safe. The research found that a third of people sometimes used handheld mobile phones while driving, but three quarters ate or drank at the wheel. The 26 participants in the study by Brunel University were asked to drive a Ford Mondeo simulator on an urban route, once without eating and once while eating from a bag of wrapped sweets or drinking from a bottle of water. The simulator would show a pedestrian suddenly stepping into the road and then measure the drivers’ responses. Even though the participants tended to slow down while unwrapping a sweet or unscrewing and raising the bottle to their lips, they were still twice as likely to hit the pedestrian. (snip) ------------------------------------------ Plus the psychopaths also play with radios and CD players and read books while driving and could care less if they crash into you. When are people gonna wake up and realize that reckless drivers are hundred times the threat that terrorists are. |
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