Distraction is assumed to be a major factor in this rise. Fatalities, sadly, are believed to be up even more sharply, last year hitting levels not seen in a decade and possibly the largest two-year jump in more than fifty years. In the worst of those years, 34,000 crash injuries were specifically blamed on cell phone use. In March, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that from 2011 to 2015 between 387,000 and 431,000 people were injured each year in crashes that could be blamed on distracted driving. The latest data haven’t been analyzed yet, but crashes have been up in recent years. In fact, WSP’s records list a minor crash between two passenger vehicles (causing no injury) with this same cause just two miles from this fatal accident hours earlier on the same day. Crashes up OverallĬrashes due to inattention and distraction have become all too common. The collision database kept by WSP lists ten different categories of distraction (such as eating, adjusting the radio, or talking with passengers) as possible contributing circumstances to a crash-inattention is a separate category altogether. The truth is that there are many types of distraction and inattention. The crash is still under investigation, but the initial report from the Washington State Patrol lists the cause of the crash as “inattention.” That word might bring to mind several possibilities: Most people are aware of the recent nationwide plague of crashes caused by distracted driving, such as using a smartphone or other device while behind the wheel.īut we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the specific factors involved.
#HARD TRUCK 2 DEATH DRIVER#
One passenger in the car died at the scene while the driver and the other two passengers were transported to a local medical center with undisclosed injuries. The driver could not stop in time and veered across the center line into the path of a southbound dump truck. “Inattention” CitedĪccording to reports, the crash took place when the car, driven by one of the teens, came upon a line of vehicles stopped for a school bus on northbound Route 2. More vehicles were at the scene, but no others were directly involved. The crash happened around 3:30 in the afternoon on May 5 in the city of Newport, about an hour north of Spokane. One area teen was killed and three others injured this month when the car they were in collided with a dump truck.
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