{"id":18643,"date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/state-texting-while-driving-bans-cut-crash-related-ed-visits\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:09:14","slug":"state-texting-while-driving-bans-cut-crash-related-ed-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/state-texting-while-driving-bans-cut-crash-related-ed-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"State Texting-While-Driving Bans Cut Crash-Related ED Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Findings show laws curbing distracted driving are effective<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; States that have implemented a texting ban see significantly fewer motor vehicle crash (MVC)-related emergency department visits, according to a study published online March 21 in the <i>American Journal of Public Health<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Alva O. Ferdinand, Dr.P.H., J.D., from Texas A&#038;M University in College Station, and colleagues used emergency department data from 16 U.S. states (2007 to 2014) to assess the impact of state texting bans on MVC-related emergency department visits.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that states with a texting ban saw a 4 percent reduction in MVC-related emergency department visits (incidence rate ratio, 0.96). This reduction equates to an approximate average of 1,632 traffic-related emergency department visits averted per year in states with a ban. Significant reductions in MVC-related visits to the emergency department were seen for both primary and secondary bans regardless of whether they applied to all drivers or young drivers only.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings suggest that states&#8217; efforts to curb distracted driving through texting bans and decrease its negative consequences are associated with significant decreases in the incidence of emergency department visits that follow an MVC,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.2105\/AJPH.2019.304999\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings show laws curbing distracted driving are effective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}