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April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month

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In the time it takes to send or read a text –slightly less than five seconds– a car moving at 55 miles per hour can travel roughly 100 yards. So if you text when behind the wheel, you’re essentially driving the length of a football field with your eyes closed —and possibly causing untold harm to other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and yourself.

In 2013 alone, distracted driving claimed 3,154 lives and injured an estimated 424,000. Those deaths and injuries were 100 percent preventable.

That’s why, as part of April’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the U.S. Department of Transportation has launched a second distracted driving high-visibility enforcement campaign...

You can read more on their Fast Lane blog.

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