Text Messaging While Driving Raises Accident Risk 23 Times: Study
While theories about the effects of text messaging on driving ability abound, large-scale, real-life studies have not. However, a new real-life study, released Tuesday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), shows that things are worse than we thought: text messaging results in a risk of accident or near-accident that is 23.2 times as high as non‐distracted driving.