I’m not vouching for the accuracy, but I found this:
http://www.articlebliss.com/Art/392666/80/Why-Texting-While-Driving-Is-Worse-Than-DWI.html
Why Texting While Driving Is Worse Than DWI
By : Jay Jacobson
Car and Driver performed research that considered a drivers distance and response time to come to a stop travelling at 70MPH. The study revealed that it took the drunk driver four feet further to come to a stop compared to the sober driver. The shocking part of the study came when they examined texting while driving. It took the one that was texting while driving 70 feet to stop in comparison to the sober driver.
Texting while driving removes 3 important things required for safe driving:
1) You Hands
2) Your Eyes and,
3) Your Concentration
A driver who’s texting makes use of his hands, eyes, and concentration to text. This places them as well as everyone else around them at risk and what makes texting while driving more dangerous than an intoxicated driver.
Let’s undertake this line of thought a step further. There’s 800,000 people at any given moment who are distracted by means of texting and driving. Dangerous driving conditions in our day are at a whole new level. With 800,000 texting you can be fairly certain that there may be someone close to you who is distracted by texting.
The statistics demonstrate that driver associated accidents and fatilities are up due to the lethal grouping of texting and driving. Join us in making an individual pledge in saying “NO” to texting while driving.