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Here?s a stat that will pull you up faster than a four-way stop: 53% of Canadian drivers admit that they use their cellphone while driving.
That means on any given road in Canada at any time, 1 in 2 of the drivers responsible for safely navigating 4,000 lbs of speeding metal might be texting, taking a call or glancing down at an email notification. Even more alarming" That number is actually up from 2018, when 38% of drivers shared they?d been distracted by their device ? despite the fact that using your cellphone while driving comes with hefty penalties, including fines and demerits, in every province and territory. These numbers, which were revealed by Desjardins? 2020 Road Safety Survey, hammer home a sobering message: Despite all of the other things we?ve been doing to keep ourselves and families safe in 2020, Canadians still have work to do when it comes to one of the most everyday, basic activities of our lives. Case in point" According to the Desjardins survey, of all the people who admitted to ever driving high, 30 percent had done so within the last 12 months. That?s a buzzkill if ever we saw one.

The other thing about those stats, particularly the high prevalence of cell phone use, is that they reveal just how easy ? and common ? it is for well-meaning, otherwise responsible people to make some poor choices. After all, what parent amongst ...