AAA Minneapolis
More Than 70 Percent of Twin Cities Drivers Ages 18-34 Use Cell Phones and/or Eat While Driving; One in Three Text Message While Behind Wheel
Published in Law and Health Weekly, August 16th, 2008
How many Twin Cities drivers are driving with one hand on the wheel and the other preoccupied with a cell phone, iPod, BlackBerry or hamburger' According to a new "Twin Cities Driving Behavior" Survey commissioned by AAA Minneapolis, 77 percent of drivers ages 18-34 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area snack while they drive, 70 percent talk on cell phones and one in three young adults actually text message while behind the wheel.
The habits of these Twin Cities drivers -- their attention torn between driving and eating fast food or communicating on their iPhones or PDAs -- causes 60 percent of Twin Cities drivers ages 18-54 to feel stressed while on the road with these...
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