Each year, distracted driving causes about a quarter of all car accidents in the United States, the National Safety Council reports. In 2015 alone, 3,477 people were killed and another 391,000 were injured in distraction-related crashes, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed.
In an effort to help curb such statistics locally, the Red Bank Police Department is expanding its new distracted driving prevention
program, offering to make presentations in schools, companies,
churches and communities all throughout the Chattanooga area.
Late last month, an officer from the department spoke to Hamilton County’s Advisory Council on Traffic Safety.