Have you had a chance to check out all the winning videos from our recent Vision Zero 'Heads Up Phones Down' video contest?

The students did an excellent job getting the word out in some very creative ways! ▶️ https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-PedSafety/HUPD/
#montgomerycountymd #mdcommuters #distracteddriving #mdroads #mdtraffic #visionzero #students

#DistractedDriving

Drivers using smartphones while driving do not know the monsters that they are.

Woman ticketed for driving with phone in her ‘right hand’ has a huge surprise for police officer

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/woman-ticketed-for-driving-with-phone-in-her-right-hand-has-a-huge-surprise-for-police-officer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-ticketed-for-driving-with-phone-in-her-right-hand-has-a-huge-surprise-for-police-officer

The Register: Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is . “A group of researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School recently issued a working paper reporting an association between the release days of the most-streamed albums and an increase in US traffic fatalities. The authors say the pattern is consistent with smartphone-enabled driver […]

When I first got my drivers licence 30 years ago 'fiddling' with the radio was widely recognised as a dangerous distraction while #driving

Then we recognised that cell phone use while driving was also #DistractedDriving and that smart phones made it worse.

But we still refuse to recognise that large vehicle displays (for both vehicle system controls and navigation) are also dangerous distractions. The simple fact is that anything, anything, that takes your eyes off the road while driving is a distraction and any distraction that is not absolutely necessary (i.e. checking speedometer) is a dangerous distraction.

#pedestrian #safety