Driver Distractions Delineated
In Washington State, 93.5 % of all collisions are due to drunken driving, excessive speed, and/or drugs. The other twelve "top" factors that led to collisions are (in alphabetical order):
- Driver adjusting audio or entertainment
- Driver distractions outside vehicle
- Driver eating or drinking
- Driver grooming
- Driver interacting with passengers, animals or objects in vehicle
- Driver operating handheld telecommunication device
- Driver operating hands-free wireless telecommunications device
- Driver operating other electronic device (computer, navigational devices, etc.)
- Driver reading or writing
- Driver smoking
- Other driver distractions inside vehicle
- Unknown driver distraction
Similarily, out of 57,000 collisions (6-month periodd, 2006), the following are the total number of collisions attributed to the above twelve distraction factors (ordered highest to lowest)
- 939
- 836
- 752
- 666
- 557
- 228
- 170
- 69
- 62
- 35
- 25
- 18
Task: Can you match them up correctly...distraction to number of collisions?
Source: Answers in graph at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003463811_blackberry06m.html
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