Some of the latest studies say that a texting driver is six times more likely to be involved in a crash than an impaired driver. It’s all about divided attention.
In my personal opinion, the thing about impaired drivers is that unless they are so inebriated that they are close to passing out, their main danger is if something out of the ordinary happens, they may not be able to respond. Or they miss the occasional stop sign.
I’ve watched two texting drivers right before my eyes in front of me, drive right off the road. One simply kept going straight when the road had a slight bend. The other just veered off a perfectly straight road. The latter was lucky in that it was a very gradual slope and he got about ten feet off the road and was able to pull back on. The former went off and wiped out his front right suspension on a culvert.
A person that is not texting and has a blood alcohol level of .1 is a lot less likely to do that.
i.e. I agree.