A study recently released by the American Automobile Association's Foundation for Traffic Safety analyzed 32,303 crashes that occurred in the United States from 1995 to 1999. Among them, nearly 30 percent involved motorists whose attention was focused on something outside of the car, including billboards, signs, people and other traffic accidents. More than 11 percent took their eyes off the road to change the radio station or a CD, and 10.9 percent were distracted by other occupants in the vehicle, including crying children. Eating and drinking were the cause of 1.7 percent of the accidents. Motorists using or dialing wireless phones actually accounted for only 1.5 percent of the distraction-related crashes, according to the study.
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