Distracted driving persists, despite provincial legislation: Allstate

A group of Canadian students counted 802 distracted drivers within an hour at three separate intersections in Canada, Allstate Insurance Company of Canada reported.The students were taking part in Allstate’s Action Against Distraction ‘Blow the Whistle driver tally.’ They were stationed at one intersection in each of three cities (Moncton, Montreal and Toronto). They tallied the number of drivers who were not paying full attention during their morning commute, counting the number of people who were using cellphones, eating and drinking, putting on makeup or fixing their hair.Allstate agents from Calgary, Edmonton, Sudbury, Ottawa, Windsor and Halifax also did similar counts at busy intersections within their communities and found an additional 619 distracted drivers for a total of 1,421 distracted drivers.