The given graphs depict the use of hand-held and hands free mobile phones by drivers in car and van or lorry in England from 2002 to 2009, while the pie chart shows 3 categories of road accidents caused by drivers who used mobile phone
Both line graphs experienced significant changes throughout the period with initial fluctuations for both graphs which experienced increase at the end of the period. For the pie chart, most road accidents were slight, with a small number of fatal ones.
Initially, the use for hand-held and hands free mobile phones in car was accounted for below 2%, and below 3% for van or lorry transports where both figures were decreasing until 2005. trends for hands free phones in car and van or lorry experienced increases in 2004, before falling dramatically until 2006. Contrastly, use of hand-held mobile phones in van or lorry transports reached almost 3% in 2006, with a notable decline in 2007. figure for car drivers using hand-held and hands free mobile phones witnessed increase at 1.5% at the end. Trends for van or lorry drivers using hand held phones reached over 2.5% while hands free mobile phone users were below 2.5%.
Use of mobile phone by drivers caused total of 422 road accidents, where the vast majority of these accidents was considered as slight, while 73 of them was serious accidents and 23 fatal.
