There as been so much attention towards texting and driving. We all know the dangers of texting and driving, yet for some reason we think we are capable of texting while were driving. New studies show that the average driving, takes their eye off the road 3.6 seconds while looking at a text message. When following the 3 second rule, this doesn’t give us enough time to stop for a hazard in front of us. We also, tend to lean towards the right or left of the lane when looking at a text message. We have all ran our cars off the road onto the gravel or over the line, We don’t have alot of space between us and the oncoming vehicle coming the other way. Its approximately 6 to 10 ft at the most. The impact of an head on collision is the speed of both vehicles, which usually results in severe injury or death. I encourage you all to think twice before picking up your phone. I encourage businesses to implement company policy to keep employees off the phone, or they could be liable for injury or deaths. I encourage employees to set boundaries with their employers about answer the phone. Is the almighty dollar more important than our safety. Change our answer machine to say, i’m not answering the phone while i’m driving. Please drive safely and make good choices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There as been so much attention towards texting and driving. We all know the dangers of texting and driving, yet for some reason we think we are capable of texting while were driving. New studies show that the average driving, takes their eye off the road 3.6 seconds while looking at a text message. When following the 3 second rule, this doesn’t give us enough time to stop for a hazard in front of us. We also, tend to lean towards the right or left of the lane when looking at a text message. We have all ran our cars off the road onto the gravel or over the line, We don’t have alot of space between us and the oncoming vehicle coming the other way. Its approximately 6 to 10 ft at the most. The impact of an head on collision is the speed of both vehicles, which usually results in severe injury or death. I encourage you all to think twice before picking up your phone. I encourage businesses to implement company policy to keep employees off the phone, or they could be liable for injury or deaths. I encourage employees to set boundaries with their employers about answer the phone. Is the almighty dollar more important than our safety. Change our answer machine to say, i’m not answering the phone while i’m driving. Please drive safely and make good choices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[71,75,72,73,76,74,143,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}