With a national summit and a bill in the Florida House, distracted driving is becoming a major issue in the United States as well as in our home state of Florida. Most expect the practice of sending text messages while driving to become a traffic offense in Florida shortly, until then Tampa high school students got a lesson in just how dangerous distracted driving can be thanks to a program sponsored by Allstate and reported on in the Tampa Tribune.
Students from Sickles, Lennard, Leto, Wharton and Freedom high schools took part in the class held in the parking lot of Steinbrenner Stadium. The high schoolers were asked to navigate cones while texting, eating, listening to loud music, drinking and being in a car full of fellow teens. On this day the drivers were only running over cones but the point the instructors made on any other day those could have been pedestrians.
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