1 of every 10 drivers get in accidents because of cellphones. Source: http://www.winnipeg.ca/police/
How many people die in car crashes each year cause by cell phones?
If you mean cell phone caused crashes, the data varies. 2008 New York crash stats shows .3% of crashes attributed to cell phones. 2008 Kentucky crash stats show .8% of crashes caused by cell phones. 2003 Virginia Commonwealth University study showed 5% of crashes by cell phones. Another 2003 study NHTSA cites shows 3.6 % of collisions from cell phones. Notice the percentages are quite small considering all the attention given to stop cell phone use while driving.
Cell phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year
21% of fatal car crashes involve cell phones, and this number increases 4% each year.
Cell phones were called car phones in the year 1980.
46 car crashes happen in every 13 minutes.Added: Where? In what state, or what country? What statistics support this answer?
Simon T. Min has written: 'Car phones and car crashes'
The Ohio State Highway Patrol records and analyses data on car crashes in Ohio. From this data they generate statistics which can be viewed on their website.
AT&T cell phones are useful not only in daily communications needs but as emergency communications as well. AT&T cell phones can call first responders to the scene of fires, car crashes or medical emergencies such as heart attacks or strokes. AT&T cell phones can be used as a modem for a laptop computer in remote areas where landlines or broadband cable connections do not exist. A laptop computer with a web camera can provide remote medical experts with information neede
the end of car phones
the first car phone
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were 6,024,000 car crashes in the US in 2007, 41,059 fatalities, and 2,491,000 injured persons.