| subject. I don't have the time or desire to do a proper search, which requires a medical library and password access, not just Google. I have done so in the past, and I do recall the landmark study that "started it all": This epidemiological study was by Redelmeier and Tibshirani (1997) entitled, “Association Between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions.” New England Journal of Medicine, 336, 453. In case you're not aware, NEJM is arguably the "gold standard" for original research, peer reviewed, western medical journals. This study is now over ten years old but started the awareness and trend towards banning cell phone use while driving. The study examined the telephone records of 699 auto drivers who had caused motor vehicle accidents and found that 24 percent were involved in cell phone conversations at the time of the accidents. The established four fold increased incidence of accidents in association with cell phone use is the same incidence associated with DUI drunk driving. Some papers even try to equate a specific blood alcohol level to cell phone use while driving. The trend in the papers in more recent years has been to try and prove that cell phone use during driving is WORSE than DUI. Just for $h!Ts and giggles, I did Google "cell phone, driving, DUI," and many not-so-scientific examples came up, plus a few good ones. [ [ http://www.dui.com/dui-library/related/cell-phone-drivers ] ] [ [ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=570222 ] ] I am not trying to prove or disprove the point to anyone else, or challenge the methodologies used in these papers. Just the idea of cell phone use being compared to DUI is interesting to me. Off your question but to the point of this post, here's a study from JAMA on the risk of teens carrying passengers: Chen, L., Baker, S., Braver, E., Li, G. Carrying passengers as a risk factor for crashes fatal to 16- and 17-
year-old drivers. JAMA. 2000; 283: 1578-1582
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