TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Accident risk of car drivers during mobile telephone use
JO  - International journal of vehicle design
A1  - Sagberg, Fridulv
SP  - 57
EP  - 69
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - About 9000 Norwegian car drivers who had recently reported on accident to their insurance company, responded to a postal questionnaire about mobile telephone use and other distractors during the latest accident. Mobile telephoning during the accident was reported by 0.66% of guilty drives and 0.30% of innocent drivers. Mobile telephones were estimated to be used in 0.86% of the accidents, which is 72% higher than the expected proportion estimated on the basis of 'induced exposure'. The number of accidents during telephoning was too low for significant differences between hands-free and hand-held telephones to appear. Rear-end collision is the most frequent accident type during telephoning. Both radios and CD players cause more accidents than the mobile telephone.      Keywords: Driver distraction;<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0143-3369
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJVD.2001.001929
ID  - ref1
ER  -