While most will speak up to family, friends or colleagues driving dangerously, more than 60% of people don't address distracted and dangerous driving issues when in a taxi or rideshare. (Credit: guteksk7/Shutterstock.com) While most will speak up to family, friends or colleagues driving dangerously, more than 60% of people don't address distracted and dangerous driving issues when in a taxi or rideshare. (Credit: guteksk7/Shutterstock.com)

Incidents of distracted driving persist despite more than 97% of passengers confronting a motorist who had let their focus slip from the road, according to a survey of U.S. consumers by LeithCars.com, which found 22.5% of respondents had been a passenger in a crash caused by a distracted driver.

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