Simply put, distracted driving is focusing on anything other than driving while driving, and it is contributing to more traffic deaths every year. As a matter of fact, from 1999 to 2008, distracted driving increased from being responsible for 10.9 percent to 15.8 percent of the total number of traffic fatalities in the United States;1 and in 2010, the lives of 3,092 people were lost in crashes involving distracted drivers.2
