Lisa Robinson, senior program manager at the National Safety Council -- a nonprofit that
advises businesses and organizations about all-things safety -- has committed much of her professional life to fighting distracted driving. She said that accidents caused by food and drink, specifically, are devastatingly overlooked in her line of work when compared to other distractions like texting. "Just a couple weeks ago I spoke with a man who completely totaled his pickup truck because the styrofoam bottom of his ice-tea cup was about to break," she said. "He took both hands off the wheel, his eyes off the road, and he ended up hitting the cars in front of him going 70 mph."
It happens all the time. While texting and driving has (deservedly) become the most volatile issue regarding distracted driving in the 21st century, eating while driving -- a practice as old as automobiles themselves -- has been ignored at best, and generally accepted as "normal" at worst. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/distracted-driving-eating/food-and-drink
