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1. Coffee — It always finds a way out of the cup.
2. Hot soup — Many people drink it like coffee and run the same risks.
3. Tacos — “A food that can disassemble itself without much help,
leaving your car looking like a salad bar,” says Hagerty.
4. Chili — The potential for drips and slops down the front of clothing
is significant.
5. Hamburgers — From the grease of the burger to ketchup and mustard, it
could all end up on your hands, your clothes, and the steering wheel.
6. Barbecued food — The same issue arises for barbecued foods as for
hamburgers. The sauce may be great, but if you have to lick your
fingers, the sauce will end up on whatever you touch.
7. Fried chicken — Another food that leaves you with greasy hands, which
means constantly wiping them on something, even if it’s your shirt. It
also makes the steering wheel greasy.
8. Jelly or cream-filled donuts — Has anyone eaten a jelly donut without
some of the center oozing out? Raspberry jelly can be difficult at best
to remove from material.
9. Soft drinks — Not only are they subject to spills, but also the
carbonated kind can fizz as you’re drinking if you make sudden
movements, and most of us remember cola fizz in the nose from childhood.
It isn’t any more pleasant now.
10. Chocolate — Like greasy foods, chocolate coats the fingers as it
melts against the warmth of your skin, and leaves its mark anywhere you
touch. As you try to clean it off the steering wheel you’re likely to
end up swerving.
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The 10 Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Driving
By Liz Strillacci
Drivers who are drinking and stuffing their faces while on the road are
a serious problem.
Eating while you drive is one of the most distracting things you can do,
according to several recent surveys by insurance companies and data from
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
From its grease to its ketchup and mustard, hamburgers rank as the
fifth worst food to eat while driving.
Hagerty Classic Insurance, a provider of classic-car insurance, began to
look more closely at this issue after a DMV check on an insurance
applicant turned up a “restraining order” against anything edible within
his reach while driving. The man apparently had several previous
accidents related to food on his driving record.
In addition, Hagerty President McKeel Hagerty says his company often
receives claims for damage to the interior of classic cars caused by
food. “It’s tough to replace original wool carpets or particular colors
of leather seats,” he says.
Though NHTSA doesn’t track specific information on food-related
distraction, it does track general distractions and, as of 2000,
distractions in cars were considered the cause in 25 percent of
police-reported motor vehicle crashes. According to NHTSA, “distraction
was most likely to be involved in rear-end collisions in which the lead
vehicle was stopped and in single-vehicle crashes.” What makes
distraction such a problem is the confluence of the distraction, such as
eating, and the unexpected occurrence of events on the road, such as a
sharp curve or a driver stopped ahead of you.
In looking at the insurer’s history of claims, Hagerty found that most
drivers had problems in the morning on the way to work, when spills were
likely to mar their work attire. That made drivers more anxious to clean
up spills while still trying to drive, and didn’t necessarily make them
more likely to pull off the road to deal with the mess.
“It really seems it’s more the spill than the eating,” says Hagerty.
“Anything that drips is probably not a good idea.” Hagerty and his staff
decided to do a study of their own to see which foods are the worst
offenders, and although Hagerty says he ruined a few shirts in the
process, they found some interesting information.
Coffee is the top offender because of its tendency to spill. Even in
cups with travel lids, somehow the liquid finds its way out of the
opening each time you hit a bump, says Hagerty. “I’ve certainly spilled
my share of coffee while I’m driving, and it’s not when I’m trying to
drink, it’s when I hit bumps in the road.” And if the stain on your
clothes isn’t bad enough, the high temperature of most coffees can cause
serious burns and distract drivers who are trying to drive while in pain.
Insurance companies such as State Farm Insurance and Allstate Insurance
Co. don’t track specific information on eating and driving, because it’s
too difficult to break it down. State Farm says the company is aware it
is a problem. The difficulty in pinning down the exact cause of
accidents lies in separating distractions such as cell phone use,
talking to passengers, reading the newspaper, and eating, all of which
drivers engage in while also trying to operate a two-ton piece of
machinery.
Hagerty found that driving a standard vehicle with a stick shift while
eating can double the potential for an accident, since one hand is
holding food and the other hand is shifting. That leaves no hands for
steering, says Hagerty. Even more dangerous is using a cell phone,
eating, and driving. “When the phone rings, the driving distraction
increases significantly and, in a rush to answer, drivers forget they’re
driving,” says Hagerty.
How widespread is this food problem? According to a survey conducted by
the Response Insurance Agency in 2000, eating while driving ranks as the
No. 2 driving distraction. Fifty-seven percent of drivers surveyed say
they eat and drive. The No. 1 distraction noted by 62 percent of
surveyed drivers is tuning the radio, and No. 3, noted by 56 percent of
drivers, is turning around to talk with passengers. Interestingly, only
29 percent of drivers surveyed listed talking on a cell phone as a
distracting activity in which they engage.
In a 2001 survey of 1,000 drivers for Exxon, more than 70 percent of
drivers say they eat while driving, up from 58 percent in 1995.
Eighty-three percent say they drink coffee, juice, or soda while driving
and a few even say they’d love a microwave in their car.
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