1 in 6 young drivers use Snapchat while driving: Study

Sydney: While people do not pay heed not to use smartphones while behind the wheels, Snapchat has emerged as the biggest culprit, with researchers now reporting that one in six young people use the photo-sharing app while driving.
For a few, the Snapchat use only involved looking at or replying to, other people’s messages. But 15 percent of those surveyed said they had used their phone to send a video or photo via Snapchat at the same time as controlling their vehicle.
For the study published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) surveyed 503 Queensland drivers aged 17 to 25 about using the popular social media app on the road.
Researcher Verity Truelove found that 16 percent of survey respondents confessed to using the Snapchat on their mobile phone when driving.
“The vast majority of these app users (71 percent) said they most commonly used it while stopped at a red light, but three percent said they most commonly used Snapchat while driving at any speed,” Truelove added.
She said that 84 percent of the surveyed drivers said they did not use Snapchat on the road, and only 12 percent thought it was acceptable behavior.