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WHAT: With driver distraction being a factor in up to 50 percent
of all crashes, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety will
release results and video from its in-car observational study
"Distractions in Everyday Driving." Researchers installed
miniature video cameras in the cars of volunteers to learn
which potentially dangerous distractions are most common. Is
it talking on a cell phone? Adjusting radio controls? Eating
and drinking? Talking with passengers?
AAA will also release a new survey that examines distracted
driving content in state driver's license manuals and unveil
measures to help both new and current drivers.
WHO: Peter Kissinger, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety President
and CEO
Robert L. Darbelnet, AAA President and CEO
Jane Stutts, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Colonel Jim Champagne, Vice Chair, Governors Highway Safety
Association
WHEN: Wednesday, August 6
10 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
WHERE: National Press Club--MURROW ROOM
529 14th Street, NW,
Washington, D.C.
Note: B-roll package available including in-car video of distracted
drivers.
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