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We risk life using mobile phones on roads
Thursday September 29, 2011 01:06:06 PM,
IANS
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London: Over half of
the pedestrians risk their lives by using a mobile phone while
crossing a busy road, a study has found.
Emailing and texting while weaving in traffic has turned more
commonplace, with 58 percent of men and 53 percent of women
spotted doing so, the Daily Express reported quoting the survey.
According to the researchers in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and
Cardiff, they also witnessed hundreds of pedestrians distracted by
their iPods or MP3 players.
Almost a third admitted their safety was "extremely impaired".
One in 10 owned up to regularly crossing the road while glued to
their electronic gadget. And four percent confessed to sending
emails and text messages while weaving between moving cars.
Ten percent of the drivers revealed they'd had a near miss with a
pedestrian using a gadget in the past five years.
John O'Roarke, for LV= car insurance which commissioned the
survey, said: "Pedestrians need to wake up to the dangers while
using them."
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