 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. And we see it a lot, specifically the communication device over 18 under 18. So we try to enforce that, educate and enforce during traffic stops about the laws. A car, a vehicle, today's vehicles, one second your eyes on the road is 95 to 98 feet. That's what the vehicle travels. Five seconds looking that way you can just do the math and see how far your vehicle is going to travel without you looking at the road. So it causes major collisions, especially rear-end collisions on US 23 and some of the access roads, which is US 119, US 460. So it's a big month for us. While it's important to stay focused on the road year-round, National Distracted Driving Awareness Month is a time to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. Speed is a big factor. Slow down, keep your eyes on the road. Usually if you have Bluetooth capabilities, use it. You can talk all you want and still watch the road. If you've got passengers in the car, make sure they're buckled in. Make sure you don't get distracted looking in the backseat looking for things. People will drop their phones. I've worked major collisions where people have dropped something and been out to get it and race up. And then they've ran into somebody and it's a terrible collision. According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, non-people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that involve a distracted driver. This staggering statistic highlights the need for increased awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. We have four reconstructions here on staff that work the fatal collisions. And from first-hand knowledge I can tell you most of them are just inattention, distracted driving. Some are DUI related and some are speed related. And all those are avoidable. All three of those are. You can avoid those. Slow down, watch the road and don't drink and drive. It's as simple as that and I wish everybody would do that. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.