Archives: January 2014

Persons who are texting while walking may not be able to walk in a straight line, and may have their walking gait seriously affected by the distracting activity. Those are the results of a new study that was conducted by Australian scientists. The results of the study were published recently in the journal Plos One. For the purposes of this study, the researchers filmed 26 young men, who were made to walk approximately 27 feet. The men were asked to walk a total of three times. The first time they were asked to walk while reading texts, the second one [...]

Motorists who are driving with a very low blood alcohol concentration are much more at fault in causing drunk driving accidents, compared to the sober drivers that they collide with. Those are the results of a new study that was conducted by the University of California San Diego. The study was published recently in the Injury Prevention journal. The researchers used data from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System. They focused not on motorists who were severely impaired with a high blood-alcohol concentration level, but on minimally buzzed drivers with a blood-alcohol concentration of between .01% and 07%. Technically, these [...]

According to a study, both novice drivers and more experienced motorists are more likely to get into trouble while driving because of one distracting activity-dialing a cell phone behind the wheel. The study compared driving skills of novice drivers with more experienced drivers. There were a total of 42 novice drivers who had only just recently received their driving licenses, and these drivers were compared with 109 adults who had been driving for approximately 2 decades on an average. The researchers compared driving skills for a period of between 12 to 18 months. They found that during the study period, [...]