{"id":8561,"date":"2019-04-24T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2019-04-24T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:59:04","slug":"canadians-admit-to-reading-texts-and-watching-movies-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/canadians-admit-to-reading-texts-and-watching-movies-while-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians admit to reading texts and watching movies while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than a quarter of Canadians admit to reading text messages\nwhile driving, and many Canadians seem unaware of the rising impact of their\ncell phone addictions, according to a recent survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancehotline.com\/\">InsuranceHotline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey found that 26 percent of Canadians regularly\ncheck their text messages while driving, and 41 percent have checked messages\nwhile stopped at a light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Canadians seem to be more alert to the risks when\nsitting in the passenger seat. Three-quarters of survey respondents said they\nfeel unsafe when the driver takes a call or responds to a text while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just calls and texts that are distracting drivers;\nthree percent of survey respondents admitted to watching movies while driving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of Canadians admit to reading text messages while driving, and many Canadians seem unaware of the rising impact of their cell phone addictions, according to a recent survey by InsuranceHotline.com. The survey found that 26 percent of Canadians regularly check their text messages while driving, and 41 percent have checked messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}