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Distracted Driving Accidents in Washington State
We all know that distractions and driving don’t mix. Here in Washington, we’ve enacted laws to curb cell phone usage while driving, among other things. Yet, collisions continue to happen. In our brief post today, we’ll answer the question “how many accidents are caused by distracted driving in Washington?” Distracted Driving Statistics 2017-2021 For our post, we pulled data from the WSDOT Crash Portal. Here are some highlights. For the years 2017-2021: There were a total of 150,867 distracted driving related crashes. An average of around 30,000 distracted driving related crashes each of these 5 years. A total of 550 fatalities