Let's celebrate Distracted Driving Awareness Month with these safety tips and rules for drivers in Illinois

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When you are on the road, it can be difficult to maintain attention. Anything that takes the attention away from driving is a distraction, and distractions of all types are bad. They can cause major or minor problems while on the road. These include sending a message to someone, making a call, using your navigation system, eating food while driving, and taking a selfie. These are just a few examples, and the truth is that there is no room for such and other similar activities. Your focus should always be on the road and it is also important to follow the traffic rules and different types of driving rules.

Distracted Driving Awareness Month

In 2021, distracted driving took the lives of hundreds of people. This is why April is the time when driving awareness is created among people. In Illinois, thousands of motor vehicles crash due to negligence or ignorance of the rules. For instance, in 2019, nearly 312,000 crashes involved vehicles and most were the cases of distracted driving.

Safety tips and rules for Illinois drivers

Though there are many ways to stay safe on the road, the ones mentioned below are specifically for drivers across Illinois.

  1. As a passenger or driver, you shouldn’t forget to wear a seatbelt.
  2. A driver whose age is 19 or more can use hands-free kits but these should only be single-ear hands-free devices. Drivers under 19 shouldn’t use any type of device.
  3. You should adjust your kid below 8 using a safety belt and on a properly sized safety seat.
  4. Avoid listening to music, especially hands-free.
  5. Maintain a distance of three feet or more and allow pedestrians and cyclists to pass.
  6. In Illinois, you cannot pass a school bus with 2 lanes when its lights are on or when it is unloading or loading kids/passengers.

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