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safety & education

Defensive Driving Statistics

n the United States, more than 2 million • Automobile accidents rank one of the
people are injured in vehicle accidents each leading causes of death.
year. That’s enough people to fill every NFL • A person dies in an automobile accident
I staduim. every 11 minutes.
• One in four work-related fatalities involve
Historically, distracted driving causes a motor vehicle accident.
unsafe driving. Cell phones and other mobile • Distracted driving kills an average of 9
devices create an even larger distracted driving people and injures more than 1,000 daily.
problem. A driver taking his or her eyes off the • Someone incurs an injury in an
road for two seconds doubles the chance of automobile accident every 18 seconds.
being involved in a crash. Review the staggering • In 2017, Alabama reported a traffic crash
U.S. statistics below; remember, distracted driving every 200 seconds.■
can easily be prevented. Implement a policy in
the workplace to detour employees from driving
distracted.

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