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    Car Crashes Due to High Cell Phone Use

    Twenty percent of road accidents occur due to cell phone use while driving, Traffic Police Chief Eskandar Momeni said.

    Five percent of cell phone-related crashes happen “as the driver is texting, and the remaining are due to drivers’ distraction while talking on handheld or hands-free cell phones,” he added, quoted by Mehr News Agency.

    Also a report in the Journal of Safety Research, said that driving performance while using a hands-free phone was rarely found to be better than using handheld devices.