how many car crashes are from texting
Feds: Phoning, texting killed 3,092 in car crashes last year. Update 3:05 ET. The government says that 3,092 people died last year in distraction-affected crashes, a newly refined measurement meant to tally the effect of texting, phoning or simply answering a call while driving. That was one of every 11 U.S. traffic deaths.