Another survey on Cell phones, driving & accident frequency

As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to yours truly
on news on the insurance industry.

Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving and
talking on their cell phone at the same time

http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq

Bob

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"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to yours
> truly on news on the insurance industry.
>
> Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving
> and talking on their cell phone at the same time
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq
>
> Bob
>
not again please

"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%[email protected]...
> As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to yours truly
> on news on the insurance industry.
>
> Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving and
> talking on their cell phone at the same time
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq
>
> Bob
>
>

If this thread is 'off-topic' ...then let it die....
But my thoughts on it are this....
Someone has 'latched' on to this theory and is studying it to death! They
WILL come up with the data they need!

Some things to think about !
- Where is/was this research on smokers? Lighting up is usually a mutil-hand
effort.....
- Same for eating in the car....
- Ever see people with DVD players in the front seat?
- Ever watch women/men do grooming in the mirror?
- What concerns me most is the caring for children in seats/car seats..
Reaching back to them... getting them things . discipline, etc. etc .
- Just this past weekend, I was a passenger and observed I driver in another
lane reading his 'Mapquest' map, which he was holding with his thumb to
steering wheel.

The problem is 'loss of attention' and it can occur and has occurred in many
flavors over the years. Because the cell phone is a common object, it is
VERY easy to study and zero in on!

Cell phone distraction is just a symptom of a bigger problem.... driving
distracted...

"Joe Gill" <joegill@[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:%[email protected]...
> > As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to yours
truly
> > on news on the insurance industry.
> >
> > Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving
and
> > talking on their cell phone at the same time
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
>
> If this thread is 'off-topic' ...then let it die....
> But my thoughts on it are this....
> Someone has 'latched' on to this theory and is studying it to death! They
> WILL come up with the data they need!
>
> Some things to think about !
> - Where is/was this research on smokers? Lighting up is usually a
mutil-hand
> effort.....
> - Same for eating in the car....
> - Ever see people with DVD players in the front seat?
> - Ever watch women/men do grooming in the mirror?
> - What concerns me most is the caring for children in seats/car seats..
> Reaching back to them... getting them things . discipline, etc. etc .
> - Just this past weekend, I was a passenger and observed I driver in
another
> lane reading his 'Mapquest' map, which he was holding with his thumb to
> steering wheel.
>
> The problem is 'loss of attention' and it can occur and has occurred in
many
> flavors over the years. Because the cell phone is a common object, it is
> VERY easy to study and zero in on!
>
> Cell phone distraction is just a symptom of a bigger problem.... driving
> distracted...

Absolutely true. In saying that, this is a new study. I for one have been
involved in three accidents in the past ten years that involved cell phones.
The one 10 years ago was my fault. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad for either
party. In the past two years, those two other accidents, which wasn't my
fault) where the other parties were yakking away on a cell phone.

The point is as you said ... driving distraction, and IMHO, and cell phone
use is on top of all those other circumstances listed above.

Bob

"Paul Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:08:27 GMT, "Bob Smith"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to yours
truly
> >on news on the insurance industry.
> >
> >Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving
and
> >talking on their cell phone at the same time
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq
> >
> >Bob
>
> I'd put a lot more faith in this study:
> 1. if it weren't published by the Insurance Journal (possible axe to
> grind), and
> 2. if I didn't work in the cell phone industry (also possible axe to
> grind). <g>
>
> --
> Paul Miner

The study was put together by the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety,
which is a well respected organization. http://www.iihs.org/ So what if it
was published in the Insurance Journal? Don't you think that the insurance
industry want to reduce the percentage of 1st party physical damage claims,
3rd party physical damage & bodily injury claims, 1st party med pay claims
and so on?

As previously mentioned, I've been involved in a few accidents (the only
accidents I've had), and from personal experience, I would have much rather
not had those accidents.

Bob

Bob Smith wrote:
> "Paul Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:08:27 GMT, "Bob Smith"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> As an agent, I subscribe to a daily report issued & emailed to
>>> yours truly on news on the insurance industry.
>>>
>>> Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on
>>> driving and talking on their cell phone at the same time
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>> I'd put a lot more faith in this study:
>> 1. if it weren't published by the Insurance Journal (possible axe to
>> grind), and
>> 2. if I didn't work in the cell phone industry (also possible axe to
>> grind). <g>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Miner
>
> The study was put together by the Insurance Institute For Highway
> Safety, which is a well respected organization.

That organization misrepresents data to a degree that is laughable.
Always benefiting the insurance industry, naturally. I have little faith
that the IIHS is even remotely objective. Were you serious with that
comment, Bob?


--
Mike

"Tinman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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<snipped>

> That organization misrepresents data to a degree that is laughable.
> Always benefiting the insurance industry, naturally. I have little faith
> that the IIHS is even remotely objective. Were you serious with that
> comment, Bob?

Yes, I was Mike ... What misrepresentations are you talking about?

Bob

In article <%[email protected]>,
"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
> Thought this might be of interest to those folks who insist on driving and
> talking on their cell phone at the same time
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7rxgq

Not really. I've been driving with communications in the car, *and*
using them while driving, for... hmmm... <counting...> um... looks
like about... ah... 40 years. Since long, *long* before cellular
technology was even a gleam in anybody's eye. I have never *once*
come even *close* to causing an accident, or failed to avoid an
impending collision, whilst doing so. Then again: Somehow I seem to
be able to treat the communications device at a much lower priority
than my driving responsibility.

There's the key word: "Responsibility." What a concept, eh?

The insurance industry... I imagine some day it'll have managed to
eliminate every potentially unsafe behaviour there is. Then they'll
have to start paying out on people dying from boredom .

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