Drivers who are drinking and stuffing their faces while on the road are a serious problem. Hagerty Classic Insurance, a provider of classic-car insurance, looked more closely at this issue after a DMV check on an insurance applicant turned up a "restraining order" against anything edible within his reach while driving. The man apparently had several accidents attributed to eating while driving on his record. Eating while driving is one of the many distracting things you can do, according to a study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. 87% of rear-end crashes in which the driver struck the lead vehicle, and 42% of near-crashes involve some form of driver distraction. (Author/publisher) Note: "The 10 Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Driving" not issued by VTTI. Tursday, July 23, 2009 – For the past 10 years, VTTI has conducted numerous light and heavy–vehicle naturalistic driving research studies regarding distracted driving and crash causation. The jump has been made by many media outlets from our research to the "The 10 Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Driving", which was not issued by VTTI, and was actually issued by Cleveland–based http://www.insurance.com Please check their website for more information on this listing.
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