@article{ref1,
title="Student motorcyclists' mobile phone use while driving in Vientiane, Laos",
journal="International journal of injury control and safety promotion",
year="2017",
author="Phommachanh, Sysavanh and Ichikawa, Masao and Nakahara, Shinji and Mayxay, Mayfong and Kimura, Akio",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="245-250",
abstract="To investigate mobile phone use while driving among student motorcyclists in Laos, we conducted a school-based questionnaire survey in central Vientiane in May 2014. Of the 883 high school students who reported to drive motorcycles at least once a week, 40% have ever used phones while driving motorcycles in both sexes. Those phone users had longer driving exposures than non-users, with about half engaging in phone use while driving at least 2 days a week and 70% engaging for 1 min or longer on an average day. They reported not just talking on the phone while driving but operating the phone such as dialling and text-messaging. In some instances, phone use was reportedly involved in their past crash experiences. To formulate a sound policy on this emerging distracting behaviour among motorcyclists, its contribution to the occurrence of overall crashes among motorcyclists should be investigated.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1745-7300",
doi="10.1080/17457300.2016.1166141",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2016.1166141"
}