Percentage Of Accidents Caused By Cell Phone Use. The dot also tracks how many of those accidents were attributed to cell phone use: The tragic numbers of a worldwide problem
From 2016 to 2017, nhtsa’s research found that distracted driving by cellphone use decreased by nearly 0.4 percent. Text messaging causes 5 percent of crashes. According to the report, cell phones caused 26 percent of car accidents in the u.s.