Injury Prevention Programs Against Distracted Driving: Are They Effective?

CONCLUSION: There was 32% reduction in the incidence of distracted driving post-intervention which remained low even at 6 month follow up. Implementation of an effective injury prevention campaign could reduce the incidence distracted driving nationally.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II, interventional study.
PMID: 26760495 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - January 13, 2016 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Bellal J, Zangbar B, Bains S, Kulvatunyou N, Khalil M, Mahmoud D, Friese RS, O'Keeffe T, Pandit V, Rhee P Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research