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Too many drivers still using mobiles, warns RAC
8th February 2010
Car insurance customers are putting themselves and others at risk by using mobile phones at the wheel, according to the RAC Foundation.
Department for Transport research has found that the proportion of car drivers using hand-held devices jumped from 1.1 per cent to 1.4 per cent between September 2008 and November 2009, an increase of more than a quarter.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, described the figures as "very worrying".
"It seems a small, but growing, minority of drivers choose to flout the law. Yet their actions can have tragic consequences," he commented.
"In 2008, the use of a mobile phone was a contributory factor in 16 fatal road accidents and many more where people were seriously injured."
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, called for car insurance customers to receive more education on the reasons driving on the phone is so dangerous.
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