text: "Nine people are killed and more than 1,000 injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in the United States each year," stated by the Mila Araujo in her writing "Dangers of distracted driving: Definition, Stats, and Risks for Teens." Distracted driving isn't just being on your phone, but also eating while driving, playing around, or looking at other things instead of the road. Basically, distracted driving is when your doing everything else but focusing on the road while driving. "9 percent of fatal crashes and 15 percent of injury crashes due to distracted driving, and an 8 percent increase in all distracted driving fatalities since 2016," according to the NHTSA. As you can see distracted driving is extremely dangerous.