Whether it’s talking on a mobile phone, text messaging, eating, changing the radio station, or even yelling at the kids in the back seat it – it’s distracted driving.
Distracted driving will drive up a motorist’s auto insurance premiums by an average 16% or about $226 a year, according to a study conducted by the car insurance search engine The Zebra.
“Speeding, drinking and driving, disobeying traffic signals – those violations have (unfortunately) been around since the advent of automobiles. Distracted driving is really the only new dangerous behavior to affect your driving record,” explains The Zebra’s director of market insights, Alyssa Connolly, “The insurance industry and regulators have to ensure any rate changes they make are justified, so even though cell phones aren’t new to you and me, the risks and dangers they pose for drivers have only recently been substantiated – and now distracted drivers are really seeing the effects on their premiums.”
Read the article at Forbes.
