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atmosx on Sept 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Navdy

I believe that accidents caused by distracting devices are only a small % (really small) of this trend. The huge % of car accidents is because of alcohol abuse.

dirtyaura on Sept 14, 2014 [–]

If I recall correctly, distracted driving is the main cause for around 20% of the fatal accidents in the US. Drunk driving is around 40%.

atmosx on Sept 16, 2014 | [–]

If it's as high as 20% I'm all wrong, sorry. Was not able to find any hard-data (paper) though.

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