2026-09-03 17:21 UTC
Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes
A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it.
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@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2026-09-03 19:57
What a creepy Orwellian system we’ve built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they’ll be including what direction the driver’s eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.
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@pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-04 06:20
It always makes me curious how they even obtained this data
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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-04 06:55
I could’ve sworn there was a study that showed phones are less of a problem than gigantic cars, but that may have been damage/death toll instead of crash rate.