Thursday, January 28, 2010

If you walk and use a cell phone, watch out

New York Times, January 17
Author: Matt Richtel

Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while talking or texting on a cell phone. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006, according to a study by Ohio State University, which says it is the first to estimate such accidents.

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