Makes sense. The US Navy summed it up best:
I'm sure cell phone fatalities are higher now due to even more universal use...but still won't be close to the fatalities caused by other "in the car" distractions.
Here's the FARS data from 1998-2005 I compiled
Total fatalities: 304,236
Street Racing: 353 (.12 percent)
Cell phone: 327 (.11 percent)
Driving BELOW speed limit 429 (.14 percent)
Police vehicle-caused fatal accidents 1,357 (.44 percent)
Distraction inside vehicle (controls or talking to passenger) 38,914 (12.79 percent)
Drunk driving: nearly 144,000!
This is the best part! I spoke to the Federal gov't department, MP, MPP, Ministry of Transportation and the OPP. When they saw the data, they all thought that the Street Racing numbers would be "much higher". When I asked them where THEY get data to decide policy (or why they thought the numbers would be higher), they just sort of shrugged their shoulders; they didn't know. Turns out Canada does NOT have a FARS system. So Canada had no real data that they use to make driving policy. It's typically made up BS.