Reducing Distracted Driving Among Adults: Child-to-Adult Interventions

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August 29th, 2022

Distracted driving is a major contributor to crashes. In 2020, there were 3,142 lives lost to crashes involving distracted driving (Stewart, 2022). Countermeasures that aim to reduce distracted driving exist, such as laws, enforcement campaigns, outreach, and programs for adult and teen drivers (Venkatraman et al., 2021). However, these typically target the drivers themselves; few if any efforts were identified at the time of this study involving attempts to get younger school children to intervene with their drivers.