Don’t Text and Drive Public Service Campaign
Since 2009 Montlick & Associates has been airing public service messages on television throughout Georgia, in an effort to help reduce the number of injuries caused by people texting while driving:
Watch the following segments from ABC news featuring our Family Safety Advocate Jacquie Palisi:
New Georgia Texting Law 
Don't Text & Drive Campaign 
The following billboards are being displayed on highways and roads in many parts of Georgia:
Numerous studies clearly indicate that using wireless communications, and specifically text-messaging, is one of the most dangerous distractions for a driver, too often with deadly consequences.
Driving while using a cell phone results in a four times greater risk of crashing, equivalent to driving while drunk (with a 0.08 blood-alcohol level). However, for texters, the risk is eight times greater. A recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, which videotaped truck drivers over 18 months, showed that texting made them 23 times more likely to crash or narrowly avoid a crash.
Several recent high visibility trucking and transit crashes have been directly linked to texting from a cell phone. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s research showed that text messaging also had the longest duration of eyes off road time (4.6 second over a 6 second interval). This equates to a driver traveling the length of a football field at 55 mph without looking at the roadway.
According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, “These results show conclusively that a real key to significantly improving safety is keeping your eyes on the road.”
PLEASE, NEVER text or read text messages while you are driving!!! You should also know that in many states it is illegal to do so!
