South Carolina and Tennessee have the highest percentage of cellp...
South Carolina and Tennessee have the highest percentage of cellphone users who text-message while driving, a survey found. The study, commissioned by voice-enabled cellphone date interface maker Vlingo, said 40 percent of South Carolina cellphone users text-message at the…
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wheel, and 38 percent of those in Tennessee do it. Next were Georgia with 38 percent, and Maryland and Louisiana, tied at 36 percent. States with the fewest text-messaging drivers were Arizona, 17 percent, Maine, 19 percent, Vermont, 20 percent, and Delaware and New Hampshire, tied at 21 percent. Overall, 28 percent of U.S. cellphone users say they have text-messaged while driving. That jumps to 52 percent among drivers under 30. The survey of 4,800 cellphone users found that 55 percent of cellphone users send text messages at least occasionally. The percentage jumps to 85 percent of under- 30s.