LANSING (WKZO) -- A recently released statewide report shows distracted driving in Michigan is getting worse. According to the report, in the past decade about nine-thousand crashes involving cell phones were reported.
Another 34-thousand crashes were reported in the last ten years that involved different forms of distracted driving. And according to the National Highway Traffic Safety administration, in 2010 there were almost 31-hundred deaths in crashes that involved a wide range of driver distractions. 17, 18, and 19-year-olds accounted for most of the incidents.