According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, each day in the United States, approximately 9 people are killed and more than 1,000 injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 3,477 people were killed, and 391,000 were injured in the motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in the United States in 2015.
Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,166 lives in 2017 alone according to the NHTSA.
In 2016, The Texas Department of Transportation reported 455 deaths in 109,629 distracted driving crashes that occurred in the State of Texas alone.
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https://www.themonitor.com/2020/03/08/dps-18-year-old-phone-fatal-escobares-accident/
A 68-year-old woman was killed in Starr County on Saturday after an 18-year-old man traveling on U.S. Highway 83 drove off the roadway and struck a white Nissan Sentra as well as pedestrians, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
DPS booked Adalberto Barron into Starr County jail Saturday on a charge of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Authorities believe he was on his phone at the time of the fatal accident.
In a news release, DPS says the accident occurred at about 1:25 p.m. Saturday at mile marker 812, just east of Escobares.
“Preliminary investigation revealed a brown Chevrolet pickup was traveling on Highway US 83 when it drove off the roadway striking a white Nissan Sentra that was exiting a driveway,” the release stated. “Furthermore, after the first impact, the Chevrolet continued traveling until striking a fence and crashing into two pedestrians that were standing outside a silver Buick suv.”
One of those pedestrians, Oneida Guerra, of Roma, died at the hospital, according to the release.
As of Sunday afternoon, Starr County jail records showed he hasn’t yet had bond set.
