Assessing the impact of the 2015 introduction of increased penalties and enhanced public awareness and enforcement activities on texting while driving among adults in Ontario, Canada.

Conclusions: These results identify a decrease in TWD following the introduction of enhanced penalties with corresponding public education and enforcement efforts, adding to the existing evaluative evidence base to inform transportation safety policy. These results also support the need to examine TWD and its determinants among all age groups.
PMID: 32255373 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - April 6, 2020 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Wickens CM, Ialomiteanu AR, Cook S, Hamilton H, Haya M, Ma T, Mann RE, Manson H, McDonald A Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research