{"id":368,"date":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/phones-and-other-distractions-lead-teens-to-accidents\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:21","slug":"phones-and-other-distractions-lead-teens-to-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/phones-and-other-distractions-lead-teens-to-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Phones and other distractions lead teens to accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a number of years since distracted driving became a national safety issue; specifically, talking on cell phones and texting while driving. Since then, more than 30 states have enacted laws limiting cell phone use while behind the wheel, and they have enacted rules detailing how teen drivers may drive.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, young drivers may not use cell phones at all when behind the wheel, and they may only drive at certain times of the day. Despite these rules, teen drivers still use their cell phones while driving; but it was always difficult to track how many young drivers actually do so. After all, police reports (created after an accident) may not always detail whether a driver was distracted by using a phone (or any other reason).<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/phones-distractions-big-problem-teen-drivers-29892097\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that distracted driving was more of a problem among teen drivers than originally thought. Researchers reviewed nearly 1,700 dashboard camera videos that chronicled the moments before a teen driver was involved in a crash, and they found that these drivers were commonly distracted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/phones-and-other-distractions-lead-teens-to-accidents\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Phones and other distractions lead teens to accidents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a number of years since distracted driving became a national safety issue; specifically, talking on cell phones and texting while driving. Since then, more than 30 states have enacted laws limiting cell phone use while behind the wheel, and they have enacted rules detailing how teen drivers may drive. Essentially, young drivers may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Phones and other distractions lead teens to accidents &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; March 26, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Phones and other distractions lead teens to accidents - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/phones-and-other-distractions-lead-teens-to-accidents\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Phones and other distractions lead teens to accidents &#8212; 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