Release: Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Release: Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Release: Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold

NIH study also suggests that handling a cell phone doubles teen driver crash risk

Monday, February 25, 2019

-Stock photo. Teenage boy uses cell phone with two hands behind the driver’s wheel.

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Teenagers who reach for objects, such as food or makeup, while driving increase their risk of crashing nearly seven times, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Their study, which appears in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, also found that manually dialing, texting or browsing the web on a phone while driving doubled a teen’s crash risk.