AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety to Release Study, in-Car Video of Driver Distraction

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AAA to Also Provide Analysis of Distracted Driving Content in State Driver's License Manuals and Offer Model Language

WHAT:   With driver distraction being a factor in up to 50 percent
        of all crashes, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety will
        release results and video from its in-car observational study
        "Distractions in Everyday Driving." Researchers installed
        miniature video cameras in the cars of volunteers to learn 
        which potentially dangerous distractions are most common. Is 
        it talking on a cell phone? Adjusting radio controls? Eating 
        and drinking? Talking with passengers?

        AAA will also release a new survey that examines distracted
        driving content in state driver's license manuals and unveil
        measures to help both new and current drivers.

WHO:    Peter Kissinger, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety President
        and CEO
        Robert L. Darbelnet, AAA President and CEO 
        Jane Stutts, Ph.D., University of North Carolina 
        Colonel Jim Champagne, Vice Chair, Governors Highway Safety 
        Association

WHEN:   Wednesday, August 6
        10 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

WHERE:  National Press Club--MURROW ROOM
        529 14th Street, NW,
        Washington, D.C.

Note: B-roll package available including in-car video of distracted 
drivers.