| Mobile phones ‘more risky than drink’ for drivers |
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| Written by Michael Moroney | |
| Wednesday, 03 October 2007 | |
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Talking on a mobile phone - including a hands-free phone - could be worse than drink-driving, say researchers. A number of studies - including those by the UK’s TRL (Transport Research Laboratory), the University of Sydney’s Injury Prevention and Trauma Care Division and the University of Utah in the USA - suggest that motorists using phones are four times more likely to crash.
It is also claimed that they have an average 30 per cent slower reaction time than drinkers at the UK drink-drive limit if talking on a mobile. The results mean, say researchers that thousands of Irish drivers could be putting their lives and lives of other road users at risk by chatting on mobiles while behind the wheel.
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