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March 5th, 2019
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Driver distractions
The study uses data from the Transportation Research Board’s second Strategic Highway Research Program’s Naturalistic Driving Study. With this information, researchers reconstructed a driver’s actions and the surrounding environment prior to the crash from a firsthand account.
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Praveen Edara
Praveen Edara and a team of researchers at the University of Missouri say drivers not paying attention — such as answering a phone call, a text message, or being distracted by a passenger — for any length of time are 29 times more likely to be involved in a collision or near collision in a highway work zone. Photo:
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