Italians "like" the mobile phone - The Press

is what reveals the Association of Supporters and Friends of the Traffic Police. `Of the 4,048 drivers on the phone ‘, 3,057 were male (equal to 75.5%) and 991 (24.5%) female

Italians like to be on the phone. Especially when they are behind the wheel. This is what reveals the ASAPS, the Association of Supporters and Friends of the Traffic Police, which has played a monitoring on the use of mobile phones by drivers of vehicles, according to which the use of the national average is 12.4%, with peaks highest in Turin and Palermo (14%). The initiative, part of the awareness campaign `A message sometimes shortens life ‘, involved dozens of volunteers who were placed on some of the busiest intersections of the city to count all those who passed along the road intent on call and texting. Turin, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Palermo are some of the major cities put under the magnifying glass dall’Asaps, but monitoring has included towns such as Arezzo, Benevento, Forlì, La Spezia, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia , Cesena and many others.

motorists observed were a total of 32,650 of these and those `pinched ‘with a mobile phone were 4,048, equal to a percentage of 12.4%. In addition, the `4,048 drivers on the phone ‘, 3,057 were male (equal to 75.5%) and 991 (24.5%) female, the latter figure in some cities has touched peaks of 30%. Among the `positive ‘telefonometro to 29% was found to be user in the first time period (from 8 to 9), 35% in the second (from 12 to 13) and 36% in the third (from 18 to 19). Also the environmental conditions of use demonstrate a degree of typicality: a more frequent use of the mobile phone was found near the more frequented areas (schools, shopping malls, stadiums, hospitals), namely in the areas of greater “stimulus” than normal and ordinary traffic situations such as a provincial road or fast sliding (tangential and state).

one exception: 22% of the total number of drivers caught on the phone (ie, more than one in five) was stopped at a red light. As for the breakdown in geographical areas and as an absolute value, however, the use of the phone while driving is prevalent in the North (1,710 drivers, 42.2%), followed by Central with 1,186 “telephone operators” (29, 3%) and the South with 1,152 (28.5%).

also remarkable differences between the large cities: Turin if there was a percentage of `telephone operators’ equal to 14% (ASAPS monitoring has occurred, however, in the vicinity of the stadium and some shopping centers), Milan was instead of 12% and `only ’10.2% in Florence. More sustained in Verona and Forli where they exceeded the national average, with peaks up to 16%.

In Rome, the percentage of drivers on the phone was 13.6%, but it was found an interesting number of telephone operators in a vehicle with two wheels (42 scooter riders and motorcyclists throughout Central Italy, 32 of them in Rome).

High

the percentage of positive even in Naples (13.5%) and Palermo (14%). The president of the association, Jordan Biserni, has already established that the next monitoring will cover drivers of vehicles designed for public transport: “A first idea there we already done – he said – because our detectors, while focusing mainly on the data Overall, they have been able to notice some frequent habit among bus drivers and bus line call during transport users’ practice now forbidden by law but which was permitted until a few years ago. The monitoring will be developed in the coming months, when at the end of the winter season appear easier to see drivers and track yet another identikit of dangerous `telephonist of the road ‘.

Finally, the appeal

dell’Asaps for the New Year: “Let us not take the craving to send or read text messages to guide cards – Biserni says – because on a normal day it launched in Italy about 260milioni. Expect to be at their destination does not mean failing in its duty of courtesy. ”