About 40% of all UK motorists get seriously distracted on a regular basis while driving according to the most recent RAC Report on Motoring.
Those who are younger between the ages of 17 to 24 are the most likely to get pre-occupied, about 56% admitting that they get seriously distracted while driving.
Texting was the most frequent activity that teens admitted to doing while driving, with 26% stating they have texted while driving out of which 4% thought that there was no problem with doing so.
About 15% of other teens stated they have put their makeup on while driving and 20% drove with headphones on so they could listen to music.
The study also went on to look at how these distractions can impair driving performance and how far motorists can travel in a vehicle while their eyes leave the road for only a few seconds to look down or over.
One stunning fact is that in the five seconds it may take you to change a CD, if you know where everything is, at the rate of 70mph your car will have covered two football pitches worth of length without you knowing how vehicles around you are travelling.
At that speed, you would need 96 metres to come to a complete stop which is about as far as three football pitches, but you have already coved the length of two.
RAC director of technical David Bizley stated that it is clear that even though the Government has attempted to limit distractions the message is not reaching drivers as fatalities have almost doubled in just the last three years.
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