Facts:

• 5 seconds is the minimal amount of attention that a driver who texts takes away from the road. If traveling at 55 mph, this equals driving the length of a football field without looking at the road.

• Teens who text while driving spend 10% of the time outside their lane.

• According to AT&T's Teen Driver Survey, 97% of teens agree that texting while driving is dangerous, yet 43% do it anyway.

• 19% of drivers of all ages admit to surfing the web while driving.

• 40% of teens say that they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone.

• The most recent National Occupant Protection Use Survey finds that women are more likely than men to reach for their cell phones while driving.

• According to 77% of teens, adults tell them not to text or email while driving, yet adults do it themselves “all the time.”

• 9 in 10 teens expect a reply to a text or email within five minutes or less, which puts pressure on them to respond while driving.

• Talking on a cell phone while driving makes you four times as likely to crash, and texting while driving increases your chances of a crash by up to 8 to 23 times.

• Each day in the United States, more than 9 people are killed and more than 1,060 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.

• The NHTSA states that 80% of accidents and 16% of highway deaths are the result of distracted drivers. 

• Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.

• 11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving.

• 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.