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Texting a 'major driving risk'

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Texting while driving impairs motorists more than being under the influence of drink or drugs, research suggests.

The RAC Foundation asked 17 to 24-year-olds to drive in a simulator while writing or reading texts and found average reaction times slowed by 35%.

Richard Westcott reports from the Transport Research Laboratory in Wokingham.

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