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COMMENTS: Better Drunk than Texting
A different dangerous behavior attracted the attention of ABC's Jonathan Karl on Capitol Hill and NBC's Michelle Kosinski in Miami. They both covered a transportation study from Virginia Tech that measured the risks run by motorists who send text messages while driving, a technique that is illegal in 14 states. ABC's Karl used this statistic: if drunk driving or cellphone driving increase the risk of a collision fourfold compared with attentive drivers, then texting-&-driving elevates the risk by 23 times. Nevertheless NBC's Kosinski reported on a AAA survey that found that one driver in five sends text messages from behind the wheel.
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