Whiplash injuries that lead to lower back pain often stem from rear-end accidents due to distraction. Distracted driving often means a driver fails to notice what is happening on the road ahead, which leads them to collide with the rear of another vehicle. Even low-speed accidents can lead to severe whiplash injuries, and motorists who allow their attention to be momentarily distracted can cause them. Distracted driving is a public health problem, considering: When motorists focus on anything other than safe driving, they are dangerously distracted. Texting is the most dangerous form of driver distraction on our roads. Texting melds all three varieties of distraction into one, including distractions that engage one’s hands, eyes, and thoughts. The most straightforward way to understand the danger of texting behind the wheel is to picture driving blind for the length of a football field while traveling at highway speeds. This is not something you engage in, and you do not want anyone who shares the road with you to do so either. It takes an average of five seconds to read or write a text, and that's the amount of time it takes to travel the length of a football field when driving at highway speeds.