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18 • APRIL 2020 - Senior Voice of Citrus County Health Connections
18 • APRIL 2020 - Senior Voice of Citrus County

Focus on Driving: April is Distracted

Driving Awareness Month

On a typical day, more than one of the most dangerous of
700 people are injured in distracted driving behaviors.
distracted driving crashes. However, this is not the only
Talking on a cell phone – even cause of distracted driving.
hands-free – or texting or Other common distractions
programming an in-vehicle include tending to kids

infotainment system diverts or passengers in the back
your attention away from seat, eating, watching an
driving. event outside of the vehicle,

More Information on interacting with passengers,
Distracted Driving unsecured pets, putting
on makeup or grooming,
Distracted driving is anything adjusting radio or climate CATEGORIES OF DRIVER DISTRACTION

that takes your hands off controls, checking your GPS Visual Taking your eyes off the road
the wheel, your eyes off the app or system, and even Manual Taking your hands off the wheel
road or mind off driving. It is daydreaming. Cognitive Thinking about anything other than driving
extremely risky behavior that
puts everyone on the road in To avoid a crash, a driver must sees a hazard until the brain dramatically affects a vehicle’s
danger. There are different perceive a hazard, react and recognizes it, and reaction stopping distance. Even a
kinds of driver distractions: give the vehicle time to stop. distance, the distance a car focused driver going 50 mph
Driver perception distance, will continue to travel after will travel nearly the length of
Texting requires all three or the distance a vehicle seeing a hazard until the driver a football field before coming
types of distraction, making it travels from the time a driver physically hits the brakes, to a complete stop.

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