How Cell Phone Popularity Increases Car Accidents

By LaurenMylett

  • First Cell Phone

    First Cell Phone
    Motorola created the first cell phone over 40 years again.

  • Car Accident Fatalities

    Total deaths related to car accidents: 54,052

  • New Technology

    New technology helped make cell phones more affordable

  • Cell Phone Popularity

    Cell Phone Popularity
    During the late 1990s cell phone use started to become more popular

  • Late 90's Fatalities

    Fatalities in the late 1990s decreased to 41, 501. More adults than teens were using cell phones durning the time, also since it was more of a luxury there wasn't much use durning driving.

  • First I-phone

    First I-phone
    Apple Inc. introduced the first i-Phone to the cell phone market

  • Car Accident Statistics

    Car accident fatalities was similar to in the late 1990s with 41,059 deaths

  • Distraction Related Crashes

    18% of all car accidents in 2010 were caused by distracted drivers, ending with 3,092 deaths.

  • Text Messages Sent

    In June 2011 the number of text messaged that were sent reached over 196 billion, 50% increase from June 2009

  • Distracted Drivers

    Distracted Drivers
    Number of crashes including driver distractions were 90,378.