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News | Driving Insights
Study: More than half of car crashes blamed on cell phone distraction
A new study by Cambridge Mobile Telematics reveals a shocking find in recent car crashes – 52% resulted from phone distraction. The data used in the study came from several...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Time To Shame Phone-Distracted Drivers
What’s the biggest potential health risk we face in our everyday lives? A terrible disease? A violent crime? A terrorist attack? How about none of the above? A new study...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is as risky as drunk driving, study says
A new study by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, the world’s leader in smartphone-centric telematics, says that distracted driving is as dangerous as drunk driving. In the study, more than half of...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Study: Distracted Driving Triples Crash Risk
A new study shows cell phone use while driving more than triples the risk of getting in a crash. The company Cambridge Mobile Telematics collected smartphone data from hundreds of...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Put the hurt on distracted drivers: Current penalties are too light to discourage screen-obsessed scofflaws
The ubiquity of distracted drivers should alarm every Chicagoan. They’re roadway menaces, and we know how to spot them. Stopped at a red light, the distracted driver is seen from...
April 6, 2017