April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. At least nine people a day are killed in distracted driving crashes. Handheld and hands-free phone calls and texts, emails, social media, passengers, snacks, and even built-in vehicle touchscreens are just some of the distractions fighting for your attention on the road.

Here’s a simple way to think about it: if something requires your hands, your eyes or your attention while you’re driving, it’s a distraction. Distracted driving isn’t just risky for you, it can be deadly for every nearby driver, pedestrian, bicyclist, and worker.

Pledge to avoid distracted driving and help everyone around you get home safe. For more information, check out these materials to help us all stay safe while driving:

• Test your knowledge of distracted driving with the distracted driving quiz.
• Watch this video of the impacts of distracted driving with real testimonials.
• Common Visual Distractions while driving
• Common Manual Distractions while driving
• Common Cognitive Distractions while driving
• National Safety Council: Have you ever felt in danger as a passenger in a car?
• Driver Safety on and off the job
• Put the brakes on distracted driving

We hope you will take the safety lessons you learn at work and bring them home to those you care about so we can all stay safe.