1 - The average time your eyes are off the road is 5 seconds.  When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field. (2009, VTTI)

2 - A texting driver is 23-times more likey to get into a crash than a non-texting driver. (2009, VTTI)

3 - 20 percent of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving. (2009, NHTSA)

4 - Using a cell phone while driving delays a driver's reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol level at the legal limit of .08 percent. (2009, University of Utah)

5 - In 2009, 5,474 people were killed on U.S. roadways and an estimated additional 448,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes that were reported to have involved distracted driving. (2009, FARS and GES)

6 - 16% of all drivers younger than 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving. (2009, NHTSA)

7 - 49% of drivers with cell phones under age 35 send or read text messages while driving. (2011, Harris Poll)

8 - 34% of teens who drive while distracted simpley say they're used to mutli-tasking. (2010, AAA and Seventeen)

9 - 36% of teens say they have been involved in a near-crash because of their own or somone else's distracted driving. (2010, Pew Research Center)