While allowing distractions to take your attention away from the road while you’re behind the wheel is a well known danger to drivers, causing several fatal collisions each year, distracted walking is now turning into a growing danger.
Several videos of walkers falling and running into objects while using their cell phones to text have been posted on the internet and while the videos may be funny, reports of pedestrians caught in road traffic because of their distracted manners are not funny at all.
Pedestrians are urged to stop allowing distractions to cause accidents by learning more about this terrible trend here:
