By Catherine Powell
| Image courtesy of flickr |
With yesterday being New Year’s Day, I
thought I’d point out the fact that if you did celebrate the holiday with a few
adult beverages, hopefully you had the good sense not to drink and drive. That being said, I’d like to point out the
fact that while drunk drivers cause more than their fair share of accidents,
driving while drunk is hardly the only hazard that plagues drivers in the
US. An even more insidious and dangerous
hazard is driving while distracted. You
heard me right, while drunk driving causes accidents galore, in today’s
fast-paced world, this is hardly the only hazard to navigation on the highways
and byways that stretch from coast to coast.
Below is my list of other potentially deadly driver distractions.