{"id":808198,"date":"2020-06-08T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384675"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:45:00","slug":"cdot-launches-distracted-driving-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/cdot-launches-distracted-driving-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"CDOT launches distracted driving campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Distracted Driving: Distraction Reactions - :15\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.swiftcom.com\/?v=5LzX6O7F7jg&#038;refhost=www.summitdaily.com&#038;refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.summitdaily.com%2Ffeed%2F\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation is launching a campaign to remind drivers to get rid of distractions when they hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>As traffic numbers begin to pick back up this summer, CDOT is urging motorists to leave distractions behind. More than 90% of Colorado drivers admitted to driving distracted weekly, according to a CDOT survey conducted last year. And with handheld technology more prevalent than ever, distracted driving has become one of the biggest threats to safety on roadways.<\/p>\n<p>There were 15,673 crashes in Colorado involving distracted drivers in 2018, amounting to 42 a day. Of the 890 drivers killed that year in fatal crashes, 53 were due to distracted driving. Among drivers 15-20 years old involved in a fatal crash in 2018, 17% were distracted, the highest percentage for any age group.<\/p>\n<p>CDOT\u2019s new campaign is called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/safety\/distracteddriving\/distracted-driving.html\" target=\"_blank\">Distraction Reactions<\/a> and is meant to help shift people\u2019s behavior toward safer driving through coffee sleeves in cafes around the state, digital ads and gas station videos that ask the question, \u201cIf drivers saw how others reacted to their distracted driving, would they change their behavior?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDOT is also encouraging drivers to use phone features and apps that help reduce distractions, such as enabling \u201cdo not disturb while driving\u201d modes that block incoming texts and notifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get behind the wheel, you\u2019re not only in control of your own safety, your actions impact the safety of everyone around you,\u201d Shoshana Lew, CDOT\u2019s executive director, said in a release. \u201cJust as we are all doing our part to protect each other during this pandemic, we need to protect each other on the roads, as well, and that means eliminating dangerous distractions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/cdot-launches-distracted-driving-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation is launching a campaign to remind drivers to get rid of distractions when they hit the road. As traffic numbers begin to pick back up this summer, CDOT is urging motorists to leave distractions behind. More than 90% of Colorado drivers admitted to driving distracted weekly, according to a CDOT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:42:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}