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Where does AJ's dad find AJ's phone?

Behind the dashboard

What caused Baby David's death?

Distracted driver

Stacy was in the passenger seat or the driver seat when she was struck by a drunk driver?

Driver seat

Most skilled individuals texting are less likely to have an accident compared to the ones that have to look at their phones?

False

Your actions behind the wheel only affect yourself and your passengers.

False

If a driver looks down for just one second while driving 65 mph, their vehicle has traveled almost 50 feet.

False, 100ft

Driving while under the influence is the number one killer of teens in America.

False, traffic crashes

The National Safety Council reports that distracted driving leads to 16 thousand crashes each year.

False. 1.6 million crashes each year

Driver inattention is one of the main causes of crashes, injuries, and death.

True

Drivers who text spend about 10% of their driving time outside their own driving lane.

True

Someone texting or talking spans an average of 27 seconds after they put the phone down are still thinking about what they just did is called latency.

True

Talking on the phone, texting, applying makeup, eating, drinking, chatting with friends in the car are ALL distractions that can result in fatal crashes.

True

What did AJ hit?

18 Wheeler

What caused Sean's brain injury?

Nothing touched his head. At the point of impact, Sean's head continued to move and as his head went from side to side, his brain rubbed up against the inside of his skull and caused his injury which is called Severe Diffuse Axonal.

Mariah was in an accident and lost her life because

She was trying to answer a text on her phone