{"id":258,"date":"2024-09-09T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millerandzois.lawblogger.net\/car-accidents\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:32:32","slug":"texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Texting and Driving Accident and Death Statistics (2026 Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distracted driving &#8211; particularly texting &#8211; causes too many car accident deaths in this country. The statistics are overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to become distracted while driving. A driver\u2019s mind may wander to the problems they have to face that day. They may reach for something in the passenger\u2019s seat or look at something on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps worst of all, they may try to read or send a text message, which causes them to take their thoughts, eyes, and hands away from the task of driving.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Texting and Driving Accident and Death Statistics (2026 Updated)\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distracted driving &#8211; particularly texting &#8211; causes too many car accident deaths in this country. The statistics are overwhelming. There are many ways to become distracted while driving. A driver\u2019s mind may wander to the problems they have to face that day. They may reach for something in the passenger\u2019s seat or look at something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texting and Driving Statistics 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Texting while driving death and accident statistics for 2023 and why these statistics might be underreporting. Great stats for research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Texting and Driving Statistics 2024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Texting while driving death and accident statistics for 2023 and why these statistics might be underreporting. Great stats for research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"13 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Texting and Driving Statistics 2024","description":"Texting while driving death and accident statistics for 2023 and why these statistics might be underreporting. Great stats for research.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Texting and Driving Statistics 2024","twitter_description":"Texting while driving death and accident statistics for 2023 and why these statistics might be underreporting. Great stats for research.","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"13 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/","url":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/","name":"Texting and Driving Statistics 2024","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-09-09T13:35:09+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-28T16:32:32+00:00","description":"Texting while driving death and accident statistics for 2023 and why these statistics might be underreporting. Great stats for research.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/texting-and-driving-accident-and-death-statistics-2023-updated\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Types of Vehicle Crashes and Settlement Amounts","item":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/more-accident-types-valuing-accidents\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Texting and Driving Accident and Death Statistics (2026 Updated)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/","name":"Car Accidents","description":"Published by Car Accidents Lawyers \u2014 Miller &amp; Zois","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/1058"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/car-accidents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}