text: For instance, statistics are stating that gender and age play a huge role in these accidents. Statistics state that females use their phone while driving more than men. People try to say that teens or novice drivers are the reason for all these accidents. But according to the data ages 30-39 year olds are the main source of the deaths and drivers ages 15 - 19 had the highest percentage of distracted drivers - 16% of those involved in accidents were distracted. The percentage of fatalities linked to distracted drivers increased from 10% in 2005 to 16% in 2009.