• During the day, about 660,000 people use their cell phones while in the car.
• In 2011, at least 23% of those 660,000 were involved in car wrecks from texting while driving.
• It takes five seconds to read a text. If you’re going 55 mph, that’s equivalent to driving 100 feet.
• Texting while driving makes a crash 23 times more likely to happen.
• 13% of teens in wrecks admitted to texting or talking on the phone while driving.
• Teens who text while driving spend 10% of their time driving outside their lane.
• According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 11 teens are killed from texting while driving per day.
• 27% of adults also text and drive.
• People think it’s okay to text and drive if they hold their phone closer to the windshield, but studies show this can increase the risk of a crash.
• 39 states plus Washington, D.C. have prohibited texting and driving.
• An experiment in Belgium tricked teens into thinking they had to successfully text and drive on a closed course to get their license; the teens were not able to stay on the course.

http://www.textinganddrivingsafety.com/texting-and-driving-stats/