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How ready are drivers to return to the road after pandemic?
More Iowans are getting behind the wheel after many months of doing little driving during the height of the pandemic, and there’s concern they may have forgotten some important rules of the road.
Meredith Mitts, spokeswoman for AAA-Iowa, says distracted driving remains a crucial problem. A federal report blames distractions for 19 fatal crashes in Iowa in 2019.
“It is really hard to record distraction as the main cause of a fatal crash,” Mitts says. “If they happen to look down and change their radio and there was a deer, well, that’s going to be marked down as a deer caused this crash, when in reality, distraction did have a very major point in that.”