Blake Megason

03/27/16

Annotated Bibliography

Distracted Driving
Klauer, S. Guo, F. Simons-Morton, B. Ouimet, M. Lee, S. Dingus,
T. 2014. Distracted Driving and Risk of Road Crashes among Novice and
Experienced
Drivers. New England Journal of Medicine. 307. 54-59.
This article discusses the facts and statistics of distracted driving among the
demographic of 15 to 20-year olds. It explains the method of study and how they
experimented in order to gain this information and come to conclusions and results
they found. Two studies they conducted were a 100 car Naturalistic Driving Study
and a Naturalistic Teen Driver Study, through these they concluded statistical based
evidence on closed coursed in tracks and city streets. The relevance to my issue is
that distracted driving can cause important issues like traffic accidents, vehicular
injuries and even death by a vehicle.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1204142#t=articleTop
Bergmark, R. Gliklich, E. Guo, R. Gliklich, R. 2016. Texting While Driving: The
Development and Validation of the Distracted Driver Survey and Risk Score
Among Young
Adults. Injury Epidemiology. 3:1.
This article discusses a survey given to a pool of 10 novice drivers (18-25
year olds) and 10 experienced drivers (30 years and older with at least 10 years of
experience). The drivers were asked questions in an interview like system about cell
phone use while driving to generate a survey domain. Participants were asked
questions about how they would be distracted and what causes the distraction.
After that has been concluded the researchers generated the survey for the drivers
to take. The relevance of this to my community problem is that a younger
demographic would have more distractions as they have less experience or are
careless drivers. Distracted driving is also more prevalent amongst novice drivers
because of the use of technology.
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Wallace, K. 2016. Steering Teen Drivers out of Harms Way. Cable News Network.
This article is to just show how teens act and think when it comes to texting not only
when behind the wheel but away from it. Researchers show that teens who spend their time
on the phones will not feel the urge to resist that buzz from a text or status update. the
article also gives detail into how the teens can practice this safety hazard to avoid distracted

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driving. The relevance to this article is to give an inside look into the mind of a teenager
who frequently uses their phone and how it will affect them when they drive.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/living/teens-driving-texting-drinking-parents/
Einstein, P. 2015. 6 in 10 Teen Crashes Involve Distracted Driving. CNBC.
This article discusses the percentages of crashes and the relativity to teens
involvement with them. Roughly 60% of all moderate to severe accidents and the cause is
distracted driving by teens. The information was based on the final six-seconds of data taken
just before 1,700 crashes of in-vehicle event recorders. The relevance of this is that teens
cause 60% of accidents because they are not focused on driving, hence the distraction.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/25/

Green, M. 2015. Distraction and Teen Driving: Even Worse than We Thought. AAA News
Room.
This article displays the same information as the one before just showing the risk and
how much awareness this problem is. The relevance is that the public and teen drivers need
to take action when in regard to this topic as this causes injury and death.
http://newsroom.aaa.com/2015/03/distraction-teen-crashes-even-worse-thought/