The line graphs present a comparison of mobile phone use by car and van or lorry drivers: hand-held and hands free in England between 2002 and 2009, meanwhile the pie chart depicts the proportion of three kinds of road accidents (fatal, serious, and slight accidents) which caused by the usage of mobile phones in 2013.
Overall, there was an upward trend in using phones among drivers; however, van/lorry drivers used mobiles (hand-held and hands free) increasingly more than car drivers throughout the period. As for the road accidents, slight accidents significantly outnumbered the other two kinds of accidents in 2013.
To begin with, in 2003, about 3.0% of van/lorry drivers were hand-held users, doubled the rate of hands free which was 1.5%, whereas the trend peaked at 2.5 % in 2004. As for hand-held users, there was a slight decline to 2.0% in 2004. Both figures showed a notable growth to 2.5% in 2009. On the other hand, hand-held and hand free phones for car drivers were about 1.5% in 2003. In 2004, hand-held users dipped to 1.0%, conversely the trend rose marginally to about 2.0% for hands free.
Regarding the road accidents in 2013, slight accidents accounted for the highest number, which was 327, about three- quarters of the total accidents, while the serious registered nearly one quarter, 73 accidents. Fatal accidents attributed to only 22, the lowest among the sum of accidents.
