Robert Mazow of Mazow McCullough discusses distracted driving, driving with a cell phone, and how you can avoid distracted driving by using your phone’s built-in “Do Not Disturb While Driving” feature.
What Is Distracted Driving?
Some day when you’re driving to work, look around the vehicles around you and see what people are doing while they’re driving. You see some people reading the paper. You see other people applying makeup. You see the most people looking at their phones.
The Danger of Driving with a Cell Phone
These days, our phones act so much more than just communication devices. We can browse the internet. We can check the weather. We can see almost anything we want to, but the time to do that is not when you’re in your car. The time to do that is when you’re safely stopped, when you’re in your office, when you’re in your home. It’s not the time to do it when you’re behind the wheel.
Because smartphones engage visual, audio, and tactile senses at the same time, it becomes much more difficult to pay attention to traffic or your external surroundings than if you were reading printed text.
Using Phone Features to Avoid Distracted Driving
Some new phones are now equipped with a way to shut off the ability to communicate when your car reaches a certain speed limit. My suggestion, use that application. Do not be distracted because you take your eyes off the road for one minute, one moment, one second, it can change your life or the lives of somebody around you. Be smart. Be safe. Don’t be distracted.
Who to Call After a Distracted Driving Accident
If you or a loved one were involved in a distracted driving accident caused by someone else, contact Mazow | McCullough, PC today for a consultation. Contact us at (978) 744-8000 or toll-free at (855) 693-9084.
