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Global call to action on ending distracted driving takes place at UN

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and senior representatives from the United States and Russia will join together at the United Nations  on Wednesday to launch a global effort to address the dangerous and growing epidemic of distracted driving.

With approximately 600 million passenger cars on the road today and 4.6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide, the deadly epidemic of distracted driving is on the rise. Distracted drivers are about four times as likely to be involved in a crash as those who are focused on driving, and drivers who are texting are more than 20 times more likely to crash than non-distracted drivers.  In 2008, nearly 6,000 people in the United States were killed and more than half a million were injured in crashes involving distracted driving.

In attendance will be:

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon United States Ambassador Susan Rice Secretary Ray LaHood, United States Department of Transportation Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, and Jennifer Smith, President, Focus Driven.
The event will take place in the North Lawn Building of UN Headquarters, 2nd Floor Press Stakeout, and will be webcast live on www.un.org/webcast , and  www.state.gov .

Barb Kampbell of The Trucker staff will be contacted to comment at [email protected] .

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