According to a new study, older people have an increase of chance of getting run over when using a cell phone while walking across the street. The results are based on two lab studys in which participants had to maneuver on a treadmill to cross an actual street, the treadmill would move when the person walks. The first, with 36 college student, showed that the students who were trying to hold a phone conversation took 25 precent longer to cross the street. Second they took much elder people and noticed while they were walking with there cell phones in there hands and talking, it took them 30 seconds more. The phone added some kind of destraction for a starnge reason.
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