MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA – More than half of high school seniors admit they text or email while driving – the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit is in teens.
An anonymous national survey conducted last year found that 58 percent of high school seniors said they had texted or emailed while driving during the previous month. About 43 percent of high school juniors acknowledged they did the same thing.
“I’m not surprised. I’m not surprised at all,” said Vicki Rimasse, a New Jersey woman whose son caused a fender bender earlier this year after texting in traffic. She made him take a safe-driving class after the mishap.
“I felt like an idiot,” said her 18-year-old son, Dylan Young.