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• Personal Author:
  Lee JD ; Regan MA ; Young KL
• Description:
  Driving is a complex, multitask activity. Despite this, it is not unusual to see drivers engage simultaneously in other nondriving tasks. The potential consequences of doing so were borne out in a landmark incident that occurred on the morning of December 31, 2001, on Port Arlington Road, near Geelong, Australia. A 24-year-old female dentist was preparing to send an SMS message-"cu1" - using a mobile phone while driving along the road. She was writing the text message to a friend in Melbourne to let her know that she would be meeting her at one o'clock that afternoon. In doing so, she swerved into the adjacent bicycle lane and crashed into the back of a bicycle being ridden by a 36-year-old mechanical engineer, returning from a training ride. The rider was thrown against the windscreen and roof of the car, and landed on the side of the road. He died at the scene. The driver of the vehicle was brought to court in a landmark case-the first in which the use of a mobile phone had been blamed for a road fatality in the Australian State of Victoria. She pleaded guilty to culpable driving, was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (fully suspended), and was disqualified from driving for 2 years. This incident, and the media attention that it attracted, was important in focusing attention on driver distraction as a road safety issue in Australia. The purpose of this book is to explain and avoid such tragedies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Potential Accidents Automobile Safety Cell Phones Drivers Fatalities Motor Vehicles
• ISBN:
  9780849374265
• Publisher:
  CRC Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063398
• Citation:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition. Regan MA, Lee JD, Young KL, eds. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008 Oct; :3-10
• Editor(s):
  Regan MA; Lee JD; Young KL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226467/cdc_226467_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 320.21 KB ]