(Click on the image for Kristi King's WTOP report)
- You might think almost everyone believes it’s a bad idea to email, text or check on social media while driving.
- But a AAA survey finds more than three out of 10 people are OK with it: Only 67% of D.C. residents responded that it’s never OK for drivers to engage in those distracting behaviors while behind the wheel.
- It’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and AAA has created a new word to describe it — “intexicated,” a word deliberately similar to “intoxicated.”
- “Distracted driving — especially texting while driving — is just as dangerous as drinking and driving,” said John B. Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s manager of public and government affairs.
- “Behind the wheel, this can become a deadly weapon,” Townsend said while holding up a cellphone.
- Results of AAA's poll of Maryland drivers on distracted driving are HERE.