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Do you text while driving? Md. and Va. drivers admit they do


Posted on May 21, 2008

Maryland and Virginia have the dubious distinctions of being ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, when it comes to people who text while driving, a new survey finds.

The survey finds that 36 percent of Marylanders send text messages while driving. In Virginia, the number is 35.6 percent.

Nationwide, 28 percent confessed to "driving while texting."

Vlingo, a company that markets voice-recognition software it says can be used as a substitute for texting, conducted the online survey of 4,820 people. The survey has a margin of error of 1.4 percent.

Ranking No. 1 with the most people who text is South Carolina.

And, the state with the fewest people texting while driving is Arizona.

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