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the personal injury lawyers at the
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schmidt salida law team know how
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just how big a problem distracted
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driving can be
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national statistics show that 1.6
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million crashes automobile and motor
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vehicle crashes every year
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are the result of distracted driving
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producing
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approximately 3 thousand
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three thousand deaths a year
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it’s been estimated that one-fourth of
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all the crashes
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all the motor vehicle crashes
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are the result of distracted driving
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and cell phone usage is the biggest
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single problem there reading a text
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just reading a text has been has been
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estimated to take
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five seconds and when the vehicle is
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moving down the road at 55 miles
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an hour that five second span
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loss of concentration allows the car
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to drive the equivalent of a full
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football
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field without drivers
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attention and sadly we’ve represented
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the families of victims who have died
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as a result of cell phone usage
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motorcycle driver that was driven
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off on the shoulder heading for the
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ditch
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trying to avoid the oncoming
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vehicle the woman was on the cell phone
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but sadly wasn’t able to totally avoid
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the mother of a family that was
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injured driving on the through street
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when the 16-year-old
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texting didn’t even
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see the stop sign and texted
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several days later i don’t understand
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what the big problem was
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well the big problem was that a husband
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lost a wife
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and a family lost a mother distracted
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driving is a problem
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that we want all of you to know
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and be aware of