Posted on Jun 5, 2016

Have you ever driven distracted?

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I'll confess. Will you? My father once bought a car without a radio. I drove it with a transistor radio on the dash. Once when I reached to catch it sliding across the dash while making a fast turn I ran into a curb and bent the front suspension. I told my father I had been cut off by some crazy woman driver. He bout the story but made me pay for the repair. (I still blame him. Who the hell buys a car without a radio?)

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PO1 Brian Austin

Posted >1 y ago

Raised 3 kids...so yes, have driven distracted many times. By the third kid, it was all white noise to me while driving.

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Capt Richard I P.

Posted >1 y ago

I have, I strive not to. Driving is literally one of the most lethal activities any of us engages in in a regular basis. I was particularly struck by this study, indicating talking to someone on the phone, even on a hands free device is equally dangerous to drunk driving.

http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Distracted_Driving/index.html

http://archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/hands-free-talking-texting-are-unsafe/

Life is a battlefield and we all must die. There is only one thing to say to death "not today."

Distracted Driving | Motor Vehicle Safety | CDC Injury Center

Each day in the United States, over 8 people are killed and 1,161 injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.1

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CPT Jack Durish

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Sadly, all the examples of tragic outcomes in auto safety classes have never helped. People merely react with the same well-worn response, "Yeah, but that only happens to 'other people'".

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