The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages

Wells, H; Savigar-Shaw, L; Briggs, G

doi:10.1093/bjc/azab038

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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why (2021)
Digital Artefact
Briggs, G., & Wells, H. (2021). Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why. [Blog Style Article]

The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages (2021)
Journal Article
Wells, H., Savigar-Shaw, L., & Briggs, G. (2021). The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab038

Evidence for how phone-use impacts driving is clear: phone-using drivers are four times more likely to crash; demonstrate poor hazard detection ability; take longer to react to any hazards they notice; and can look yet fail to see. However, drivers a... Read More about The inconvenient truth about mobile phone distraction: understanding the means, motive, and opportunity for driver resistance to legal and safety messages.