10 Not So Fun Car Accident Facts
- The majority of car accidents occur within 3 miles of the driver’s home.
- When you talk on a cell phone while driving you are increasing your chance of being in an accident by 400 percent.
- Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that’s enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded
- Nearly one million high school teens drank alcohol and got behind the wheel in 2011.
- Among drivers in fatal motor-vehicle traffic crashes, men are almost twice as likely as women to have been intoxicated
- Teens are four times more likely to die or be injured in a car crash than older people
- The economic costs of crashes in 2010 totaled $277 billion. The $277 billion cost of motor vehicle crashes represents the equivalent of nearly $897 for each of the 308.7 million people living in the United States, and 1.9 percent of the $14.96 trillion real U.S. Gross Domestic Product for 2010.
- Montana is the state with the highest death rate due to car accidents
- Unless action is taken, road traffic injuries are predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030.
- You will file a claim for a collision about once every 17.9 years.
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