Distracted driving Statistics

It was a casual Sunday for Ashley, who was a single mother with 2 kids and one car. Ashley was middle aged and was an extremely hard worker at a communications company in Asheville. She often received phone calls on weekends and she never rejected any because she was so dedicated. On this Sunday she was driving back home from Walmart after doing her grocery shopping. Ashley received a phone call from a client and as she reached over to answer her phone her car swerved, and she hit a light pole.  
A recent study from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that manual-visual tasks associated with hand-held devices, such as reaching for the phone or dialing, increased the risk of getting into a crash by three times. The study also reported that even hands-free devices involve manual-visual tasks at least half the time, which is associated with a greater crash risk. 
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