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As Heather drove to the Cincinnati photography studio, she was thinking about how she was going to look in her photos. As a graduating upperclassman in her high school, she was excited to be getting her senior pictures taken and was looking forward to receiving them. As she maneuvered the congested traffic situation her thoughts were about the three different outfits she had brought along to change into and also she was concerned about her new haircut and how well it would look in the finished products. As she came to a traffic light she was mentally inattentive and realized too late that the car in front of her had stopped and she saw brake lights coming up very fast in her line of vision. She slammed on the brakes and was able to slow her car but not bring it to a complete stop and the next thing she knew she had plowed into the car in front of her. No one was hurt but Heather had quite a scare and the inconvenience of having to deal with the other driver and contacting her insurance company to report the accident.

A lot of bad choices can be the root of a car crash but the major one is inattention just as the above story illustrates. This can be precipitated in many ways but the four most frequent contributors are:

1. Talking on a cell phone – There is no way to know how many accidents have been caused because a person was talking on his or her cell phone and was paying attention to the conversation rather than concentrating on the road. It is tempting to use travel time to conduct conversations but it is a perilous activity to try to do two things at once and do them well.

2. Texting – This is a fairly recent habit that many people participate in and is known to be an unsafe and hazardous activity.Young people in particular are more apt to get and answer a text message while behind the wheel and that combined with driving inexperience makes them very vulnerable to having an accident.

3. Eating – Eating while operating a vehicle can divert someone from paying attention because multi-tasking in this way is messy and dangerous. When people spill food or soft drinks on their clothing, it frequently causes a knee jerk reaction to take care of the problem and taking their eyes off of the road for even that brief amount of time can result in an unfortunate situation.

4. Consuming alcohol – Sadly, this is so commonplace that people are no longer surprised when they find out that an accident involves one or the other parties who have been drinking before getting behind the wheel. The effects are often exhibited through poor concentration, slow response times and poor judgment through bad driving decisions that are made while a person is under the influence of alcohol. It is a familiar reality that a great deal of car crashes are caused by people who have made the unfortunate choice to drink and then drive even though there are many efforts being made to educate the public that this is a deadly decision to many drivers.

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