{"id":81167,"date":"2014-09-03T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=81167"},"modified":"2014-09-03T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:48:22","slug":"two-thirds-of-us-drivers-break-the-law-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/09\/two-thirds-of-us-drivers-break-the-law-behind-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Thirds of US Drivers Break the Law Behind the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3085\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/2009\/03\/first-drive-2010-chevrolet-camaro\/camaro-cops\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3085\" title=\"2010 Chevrolet Camaro with police\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-398x265.jpg 398w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops-812x542.jpg 812w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/camaro-cops.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One in five drivers breaks traffic laws on a regular basis with speeding being the most common infraction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It might seem like just a minor infraction, nudging the speedometer a few miles an hour over the limit. Or maybe you\u2019ve hit the gas, instead of the brake, when the stoplight was about to turn red.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that the overwhelming majority of American motorists routinely break the law while driving, about one in five doing so on a daily basis, according to a new survey. Two out of three motorists admit they\u2019ve broken the law at one time or another.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43836\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43836\" title=\"Subscribe 26\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-261.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-261-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safety News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No surprise, perhaps, speeding is the most commonly broken law, but a significant number of those who participated in the survey by CouponCodesPro.com also admitted driving under the influence of alcohol.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be all too easy to become a complacent driver after years of experience behind the wheel,\u201d said the websites founder and CEO Nick Swan. \u201cBut the fact of the matter is that careless driving and not paying attention to the road could not only be endangering you, it could also be fatal for innocent individuals around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driver error is blamed for about 90% of all accidents, speeding being listed by the government agency as one of the three most deadly infractions.<\/p>\n<p>The website surveyed 2,849 American motorists by e-mail, all over the age of 21, and all driving at least once a day. When asked if they \u201cever knowingly break the law\u201d behind the wheel, a full 67% responded, \u201cyes.\u201d When asked what laws they had broken in the last month, the most common violations were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speeding, 63%;<\/li>\n<li>Driving without a seatbelt, 51%;<\/li>\n<li>Driving under the influence of alcohol, 21%;<\/li>\n<li>Using a phone behind the wheel, 19%; and<\/li>\n<li>Running a stop sign, 9%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A full 77% of the respondents noted that they have seen another driver breaking the law within the last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(Minivans may be best for families, but not so for dogs. For more, <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2014\/09\/minivan-may-be-best-for-families-but-not-dogs\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some might think the numbers are actually low. It\u2019s hard to find anyone who hasn\u2019t received some sort of moving violation at one point or another. But perhaps the more telling statistic is the fact that 21% of those surveyed admitted breaking one law or another behind the wheel every day, while 43% confessed to doing so at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2014\/09\/fiat-shareholders-avoid-scrap-with-marchionne\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0for details on Fiat shareholders approving the merger with Chrysler.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a positive side to the survey, 82% of the respondents also said they drove more carefully when there are other passengers or children in their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(To see more about why foreign automakers feel\u00a0under the gun in China, <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2014\/09\/foreign-automakers-feel-under-the-gun-in-china\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fact of the matter is that careless driving and not paying attention to the road could not only be endangering you, it could also be fatal for innocent individuals around you,\u201d cautioned CEO Swan, including those in other vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overwhelming majority of American motorists routinely break the law while driving, about one in five doing so on a daily basis, according to a new survey. Two out of three motorists admit they\u2019ve broken the law at one time or another with speeding and driving without a seatbelt being the leading infractions, according to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81167"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=81167"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=81167"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=81167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}