Phone calls and texting increase the rates of vehicle collisions as pedestrians are less likely to look both ways before or during street crossing. https://t.co/rMSsq7hpgz #FMPH40W20
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Driving and #texting is a road hazard, but so is walking and texting. Texting compromises pedestrian safety, with higher rates of failure to look left and right before crossing than either listening to music or talking on the phone https://t.co/7QNg4Ypb3D
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@OttawaCitizen The article is based on a meta-sythensis of other articles whereby the synthesis isn’t disclosed as being funded by any commercial interests, but there’s no disclosure of if the articles synthesized had any funding affiliations themselves. h
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RT @bmj_company: Smartphone texting is linked to compromised pedestrian safety, with higher rates of ‘near misses’ and failure to look left…