Whatever the impairment is. Cellphones are particularly bad, but anything that distracts/impairs you from safe operation of your vehicle is bad too.
The scariest of my near misses and the worst of my actual collisions were caused by the actions of the other parties who were each on cell phones. All the drunk driver incidents were non-injury or hit and run property damage only...mostly late at night running into the bus type of things. No other distractions caused significant accidents.
In my time as a professional driver, one of the most unpredictable hazards was drivers and pedestrians on cellphones. Most other distractions are momentary, where cell phone calls can go on for many minutes...entirely divorcing the person from any connection to the real world around them.
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Whatever the impairment is. Cellphones are particularly bad, but anything that distracts/impairs you from safe operation of your vehicle is bad too.
The scariest of my near misses and the worst of my actual collisions were caused by the actions of the other parties who were each on cell phones. All the drunk driver incidents were non-injury or hit and run property damage only...mostly late at night running into the bus type of things. No other distractions caused significant accidents.
In my time as a professional driver, one of the most unpredictable hazards was drivers and pedestrians on cellphones. Most other distractions are momentary, where cell phone calls can go on for many minutes...entirely divorcing the person from any connection to the real world around them.