馬路殺手：年輕、女性、獨(dú)自開車

馬路殺手：年輕、女性、獨(dú)自開車

People younger than 25 are more than four times as likely as older people to use a cellphone while driving, a new study reports, and a driver talking on a phone is about 63 percent more likely to be a woman than a man.

一項(xiàng)新研究報(bào)告，25歲以下的年輕人在駕駛時(shí)使用手機(jī)的可能性是較年長者的4倍還多，而且，女性在駕駛時(shí)打電話的可能性比男性高63%。

Researchers in Texas estimated driver age and recorded driver and passenger characteristics and cellphone use for 1,280 drivers as they stopped at busy intersections near medical centers in Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Brownsville. The study, in Preventive Medicine Reports, gathered data from 2011 to 2013.

得克薩斯的研究人員分別對在美國休斯敦、達(dá)拉斯、奧斯汀、埃爾帕索、圣安東尼奧和布朗斯維爾等市的醫(yī)療中心附近繁忙的十字路口處停車的1280名司機(jī)的年齡進(jìn)行了估計(jì)，并記錄了司機(jī)和乘客的特征和使用手機(jī)的情況。該研究發(fā)表在《預(yù)防醫(yī)學(xué)報(bào)告》雜志(Preventive Medicine Reports)上，其中收集了2011年至2013年的數(shù)據(jù)。

During that time, the percentage of drivers talking on the phone decreased, to 16.4 percent from 20.5 percent. But texting increased, to 8.4 percent from 6.4 percent.

在此期間，司機(jī)打電話的比例從20.5%下降到了16.4%。但發(fā)短信的比例從6.4%增加到了8.4%。

Lone drivers were more than four times as likely to be talking on the phone as drivers carrying passengers, and women were more than twice as likely to be texting as men.

司機(jī)獨(dú)自駕車時(shí)打電話的可能性是搭載乘客時(shí)的4倍以上，而女性發(fā)短信的可能性是男性的兩倍多。

“Areas of high-density car and pedestrian traffic really need to be considered for prohibition,” said the lead author, R. Sue Day, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. “And it may be helpful to concentrate future interventions on females and younger drivers.”

“在交通繁忙，車輛和行人流量較大的地方確實(shí)需要考慮禁止(司機(jī)使用手機(jī))，”該研究的主要作者，得克薩斯大學(xué)休斯頓公共衛(wèi)生學(xué)院健康科學(xué)中心 (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health)的流行病學(xué)副教授R·休·戴(R. Sue Day)說。“而且，將未來干預(yù)的重點(diǎn)放在女性和年輕司機(jī)身上可能會(huì)更有幫助。”

Texas has no statewide laws prohibiting driving while using a cellphone.

得克薩斯州的法律并未禁止在駕駛時(shí)使用手機(jī)。