Sentences with phrase «distracted by their mobile phone»

Based on this observation, The Centre for Economic Performance suggest that low - achieving students are more likely to be distracted by mobile phones, and so banning them could be a low cost way for schools to reduce educational inequality.

Beware of smombies sign (Picture: Rex) The problem of pedestrians being distracted by their mobile phones has got so bad that new signs have been put up to warn motorists... Read more»

Therefore, the drivers most distracted by mobile phones in this survey — meaning the 25 percent of drivers who were distracted by mobile phones the most per 1,000 hours of driving — were 87.5 percent more likely to be involved in a near collision because they were using a mobile phone.

The statistics above reveal that drivers more distracted by mobile phones were 188 percent more likely speed, which was defined as at least 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.

Drivers are often distracted by mobile phones, children in the car, eating, drinking, and other diversions that make it difficult to concentrate on the road.

Now while I don't doubt that car A driver is responsible for damages done to B, he didn't maintain a safe distance between the cars and was likely distracted by the mobile phone.

Not exact matches

Imagine looking up every time someone crossed the floor, or being distracted every five minutes by a mobile phone, or someone's text, or an argument, or the guy next to you who eats nothing but Cheetos all day.

«In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

You can get distracted by them and because the first ad takes you to a completely new page, it can be annoying on a mobile phone to get back to where you started.

Don't use your phone on a date — one survey indicates being distracted by your mobile is the number one first date deal breaker.

Today, most of us get distracted time to time by using Facebook, Twitter, or checking our mobile phones all the time.

Unsurprisingly, the novice drivers were much more likely to become distracted by use of mobile phones in the car, on average three to five times more likely to be involved in a crash or near - crash through dialing or reaching for a phone.

In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with jail sentences of at least seven years; ● a combination of these features of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.

It would be hard to put an exact figure on just how many distracted driving accidents are caused by drivers who choose to use their mobile phones while driving, but it's a reasonable surmise that it is high on the list of why a driver is «distracted».

Distracted drivers are now a major contributor to pedestrian accidents caused by the use of cell phones and other mobile devices while talking or texting behind the wheel.

Such drivers can excessively speed, be distracted by speaking or texting on a mobile phone or be intoxicated, all of which can develop into tragedy.