The ROADS project: Road observational assessment of driving distractions

BACKGROUND: Globally, motor-vehicle collisions cause 1.35 million deaths and more than 78 million injuries every year, with distracted driving contributing to many of these tragedies. Our main objective was to covertly determine the proportion of distracted drivers in live traffic. METHODS: ROADS was a covert observational study conducted from November 2020-June 2021. We observed drivers on the highways and urban streets between Hamilton and …