Mobile phone behind the wheel, the dangerous habit Italian - Rai News

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12/27/2013 15:54

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• driving Rome December 27 2013Gli Italians love to talk on the phone. The problem arises when you use your cell phone while you are driving. It is the Association of Supporters and Friends of the Traffic Police (ASAPS) to have played a monitoring on the use of mobile phones by drivers of vehicles: the national average use is 12.4%, with the highest peaks (14 %) in Turin and Palermo. The initiative was part of the awareness campaign “A message sometimes shortens the life”, which involved dozens of volunteers placed in the busiest intersections of the city counting all those who drove the car intent on calling or texting.
  
  The main cities were analyzed dall’Asaps Turin, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Palermo. But monitoring has also affected Arezzo, Benevento, Forlì, La Spezia, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Cesena and many other cities. A total of 32,650 motorists were observed: of these 4,048 (12.4%) were caught in the act. Questi’guidatori of the phone ’3,057 (75.5%) were male and 991 (24.5%) female. Among the positive ‘telefonometro’ 29% was found in the user time slot 8-9, 35% in the second time slot (12-13) and 36% in the timetable 18-19.
  
  According to the research, the mobile phone is used more in the vicinity of the most densely populated areas such as schools, shopping malls, stadiums, hospitals and places where the most ‘stimulus’ than normal and ordinary situations viability as a main or fast scrolling (tangential and state). Only 22% of drivers who use mobile phones, they were stopped at a red light. With regard to the geographical distribution, 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 %) users.
  Notable differences between the large cities: Turin, there was a percentage of ‘telephonist’ by 14% in Milan was instead of 12% and only 10.2 % in Florence. The national average was exceeded in Verona and Forli, with peaks ‘telephonist’ 16%. The percentage of drivers on the phone in Rome was 13.6%, but there was an interesting number of telephone operators in a vehicle with two wheels. The percentage of positives is high also in Naples and Palermo.
  President of ASAPS, Jordan Biserni, ruled that the coming months will involve monitoring of drivers of vehicles intended for the public transport. “A first idea to succeed we have made since our detectors have noticed a common habit among drivers of buses and coaches scheduled to call during transport user”, a practice now prohibited by law. The SSPA launches a last call for New Year’s Eve “Let us not take the urge to send or read text messages to guide cards. Expect to be at their destination does not mean failing in the duty of courtesy. “
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