These conclusions were reached by the U.S. Institute of Road Traffic (HLDI), based on research in four states, according to the official website of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), - pishetAVTOportal.az.
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Studies conducted in California (the ban on writing text messages was introduced in January 2009), Louisiana (July 2008), Minnesota (August 2008) and Washington (January 2008). Their course took into account all of an accident involving a car under the age of nine years. The only state in which immediately after the ban phone usage while driving down accident, was Washington. But after a few months the number of accidents again returned to its previous level, and in the future - has increased.
According to the experts HLDI, after the ban in all four states increased the number of accidents involving drivers under the age of 25 years. It is this age group often writes text messages while driving. The most significant growth was registered in California - a 12 per cent. At the same time in neighboring states where the ban was not introduced, the accident rate has remained the same.
According to experts, this trend is ineffective prohibition of the use of phone while driving, because Americans still do not follow him. However, the increase in accidents are attributed to the fact that the drivers knew about the ban, could hide the phone - so that they could not see the police or the camera. As a result, drivers had to look down, because of which their attention was reduced more than if they kept the phones at the wheel.
As previously reported, five years in the U.S. the number of fatal crashes that occur because of the carelessness of drivers has increased by six percent. In 2009 they accounted for 16 percent of the total number of fatal accidents. At the same time most motorists are being diverted to a set of text messages on your phone.
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