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Articles

Student motorcyclists’ mobile phone use while driving in Vientiane, Laos

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Pages 245-250 | Received 24 Jun 2015, Accepted 04 Feb 2016, Published online: 20 Apr 2016
 

Abstract

To investigate mobile phone use while driving among student motorcyclists in Laos, we conducted a school-based questionnaire survey in central Vientiane in May 2014. Of the 883 high school students who reported to drive motorcycles at least once a week, 40% have ever used phones while driving motorcycles in both sexes. Those phone users had longer driving exposures than non-users, with about half engaging in phone use while driving at least 2 days a week and 70% engaging for 1 min or longer on an average day. They reported not just talking on the phone while driving but operating the phone such as dialling and text-messaging. In some instances, phone use was reportedly involved in their past crash experiences. To formulate a sound policy on this emerging distracting behaviour among motorcyclists, its contribution to the occurrence of overall crashes among motorcyclists should be investigated.

Acknowledgements

We thank Ms Nirmin Juber for the data management. This work was supported by the grant for National Center for Global Health and Medicine (25A-9).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

National Center for Global Health and Medicine [grant number 25A-9].

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