SDHP: You’re more likely to get into a texting & driving accident than win March Madness

RAPID CITY, S.D. — When driving down the highway, you may assume that one fast have a look at your cellphone is probably not that dangerous, however native regulation enforcement are hoping to drive residence a level of security.

Especially for the youthful drivers on the highway, that one distraction may imply the distinction between life and demise.

“This may very well be something from the radio, to associates within the automobile,” stated Brendyn Medina, the Public Information Officer for the Rapid City Police Department. “Obviously a cellphone is a main distraction.”

But the place the rubber meets the highway is how a lot a distraction at larger speeds could make a distinction.

In reality, Medina says that you may journey a number of hundred ft with out night understanding what’s in entrance of you.

“That travels one, two soccer fields the place you aren’t paying consideration that total distance of time that that car is touring. It might seem to be a brief period of time, but it surely’s not a brief quantity of distance in a car,” Medina stated.

Law enforcement continues to remind the general public that when you assume it could possibly’t occur to you, it could possibly and does.

According to the South Dakota Highway Patrol, you could have a one in 4 likelihood of being in a texting and driving crash.

For perspective, you could have a one in 9 quintillionth of a likelihood to have a profitable March Madness bracket. In the top, police say to put the cellphone down, buckle up and be secure.

For more data on texting and driving from the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, click on here.