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Travel Bug Dog Tag Hang up and drive!

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Owner:
JoesBar Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Origin:
Ohio, United States
Recently Spotted:
In Digger9's 5th Annual Halloween Weenie Roast

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Current Goal

To tell folks that driving a vehicle requires their attention.
Willing to travel anywhere.

About This Item

Hang up and drive!

This is a TB with an editorial.

I am tired of being cut off or nearly smashed into by people that think they can operate their car and talk on the phone. In the USA, in 2008, over 37,000 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes (MVC)! MVC are the #1 cause of death for persons aged 3 to 33 in the USA. In 2000, the economic cost of MVC in the USA was over $230 Billion. Yes, BILLION!
People talking on the phone while driving are FOUR TIMES more likely to be involved in a crash. A study done in London in Sept. 2008 stated that people texting while driving are more impaired than if they were drinking alcohol or smoking marijauna.

March 2009: A recent study done at Harvard University showed 636,000 car accidents caused by persons talking on the phone!
July 2009: Another study from Harvard stated that 2,600 persons are killed annually in the USA due to cell phone use while driving. But don't worry. It won't be you.
January 2010 You are 4x more likely to crash while talking on the phone. That is equal to being legally drunk! Texting while driving? 8x more likely to crash! Twice the risk of being drunk!
December 2011
Last year, almost 3100 people were killed in automobile accidents caused by distracted drivers.  Also, polls show that 90% believe that distracted persons don't drive well.  Yet those same folks believe they drive fine while talking on the phone.  
Think about it. Do you really have to order that pizza or find out the latest gossip while driving? If you have to babble on the phone while in your car, pull over and park.

There are other people on the road too, not just you.

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Tracking History (13294.6mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/28/2011 cooley1103 retrieved it from Girl Scout Troop 1012 Maryland   Visit Log

Picked while grabbing an FTF. I will drop this in an event tomorrow

Discovered It 10/28/2011 cycleangela discovered it   Visit Log

Cooley1103 picked this up in a cache tonight and let me discover it. Thanks for sharing! I wish more people in Maryland would hang up and drive!

Dropped Off 10/25/2011 StoneFamily07 placed it in Girl Scout Troop 1012 Maryland - 312.46 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/10/2011 StoneFamily07 retrieved it from Beach Vacation TB Hotel North Carolina   Visit Log

found while on vacation in the SOBX. This is our 1st travel bug find! :) Brought back to our home state..... a little bummed that it already made it's way to Maryland before it ended up in NC!!!

Great way to spread awareness! My husband was rear ended by a 18 wheeler while sitting at a red light...the driver was on his cellphone and didn't even hit his brakes forcing my husband into the intersection (where he could have been hit by another car)! It could have ended up a fatal crash...thank god it wasn't!

Dropped Off 6/28/2011 totito1 placed it in Beach Vacation TB Hotel North Carolina - 305.69 miles  Visit Log

Sorry I hung on to this TB so long.
Got busy and did not have time to
geocache.

Discovered It 2/23/2011 totito1 discovered it   Visit Log

Retrieved

Discovered It 2/12/2011 mmgirls3 discovered it   Visit Log

Really cool Travel Bug! I hate to see people "driving" and talking on phones.

Discovered It 2/12/2011 tigersmama discovered it   Visit Log

Great idea for a TB!! Saw it in I-81 Exit 298 TB Hotel.

Dropped Off 2/7/2011 ka3upe placed it in I-81 Exit 298 TB Hotel Virginia - 132.15 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/27/2011 flyingmoose retrieved it from Paddle Faster, I Hear Banjos... Maryland   Visit Log

Logging while driving in my car.

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