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A recent study, titled “Adults and Cell Phone Distraction,” has found that adults may be worse than teens when it comes driving while using a cell phone.

According to the study, “One in four (27%) American adults say they have texted while driving, the same proportion as the number of driving age teens (26%) who say they have texted while driving. Fully 61% of adults say they have talked on their cell phones while they were behind the wheel. That is considerably greater than the number of 16- and 17-year-olds (43%) who have talked on their cells while driving.”

The report concludes, “Adults are just as likely as teens to have texted while driving and are substantially more likely to have talked on the phone while driving.”

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