Using Mobile Phones While Driving
substantial body of research shows that using a hand-held or hands-free mobile phone while driving is a significant distraction, and substantially increases the risk of the driver crashing.
Browse our advice:
- Driving for Work : Mobile Phones – (2004 – Updated 2011) (PDF 297kb)
- Mobile Phones and Driving Factsheet – (2011)
- The Risk of Using a Mobile Phone While Driving – (2002) (PDF 257kb)
- Phone Operation vs. Vehicle Transmission – (1998) (PDF 889kb)
- A Literature Review – (1997) (PDF 40kb)
Drivers who use a mobile phone, whether hand-held or hands-free are four times more likely to crash, injuring or killing themselves and/or other people.
Using a hands-free phone while driving does not significantly reduce the risks because the problems are caused mainly by the mental distraction and divided attention of taking part in a phone conversation at the same time as driving.
