April is distracted driving awareness

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — April is about road safety. Nearly 14,000 people died last year due to crashes involving distracted drivers, with the greatest age group affected being teenagers. “We always say that looking down at your phone is an average of five seconds,” said Wood County Safe Community Coordinator Sandy Wiechman. “We know that at 55 mph you travel the length of a football field. That is far.” According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are more than 325,000 serious injuries nationally from distracted driving crashes each year. Most people think of distracted driving as when someone use…