How dangerous is it to answer the phone while driving?
On the afternoon of April 20, Mr. Gao, who is in charge of a construction site shift leader, received a call from work, and as a result, there was a major accident, and his car was basically crashed on the highway after several heel fights.
At around 3:20 p.m. on April 20, Mr. Gao was driving through Ningbo East of Yongtaiwen Expressway to Beilun when he received a WeChat call from a colleague to communicate about work.
Mr. Gao communicated with his colleagues while driving, he didn't notice that the car was deviating from the direction and slid towards the guardrail, and when he found out, he quickly hit the direction and wanted to correct it, but because of inertia, the car turned left and right on the highway and "twisted", and finally lost control and turned over to the sky.
The shattered debris of the car flew up and smashed into the car behind, and the driver behind was also frightened, but fortunately the people were fine.
Distracted driving behaviors, such as making and receiving phone calls, looking at navigation, and eating, can easily lead to traffic accidents.
At about 9:30 a.m. on April 18, a car accident occurred near the seaside interchange ramp attached to the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, and a car crashed into the roadside guardrail, and the front of the car was seriously damaged.
It was Ms. Wang who drove the car, and on the same day, she took her son to the playground to play. When she was turning a ramp, she suddenly received a phone call, and Ms. Wang was distracted, and the direction of the car turned around, and she couldn't avoid hitting the guardrail.
The dashcam in Ms. Wang's car recorded a thrilling scene at the time of the accident: the car was moving fast, and suddenly the picture shook, the direction of the car deviated, and the boy's frightened shouts of "Ahhhh Fortunately, neither mother nor son was injured while wearing seat belts.
The Ningbo high-speed traffic police fined Ms. Wang 200 yuan and 3 points for making and answering the handheld phone while driving, and assumed full responsibility for the accident.
At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon on April 17, Hangzhou Shaoyong Expressway to Hangzhou, a car driver because he wanted to find out where to get off the highway, looked down at the navigation, but he did not notice that his mobile phone accidentally drove the steering wheel to rotate, and when he found out that it was too late, the car knocked down the car in front, and when avoiding, it "hanged" to the big truck, and the car was then dragged several meters by the big truck, fortunately, the driver was not injured. The high-speed traffic police fined the driver 200 yuan and deducted 3 points.
"Even a brief distraction is enough to drive a vehicle blindly for hundreds of meters on the highway, which is extremely dangerous. The high-speed traffic police reminded that before everyone travels, they should plan their routes, try to avoid checking the navigation during driving; if they receive a call on the way, they must deal with emergency affairs, they should choose a suitable place to stop and then deal with it, and they can also let the people in the same car assist in handling it to avoid distraction.
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive