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Oh certain, Americans are adamantly against texting while driving (in theory), but that’s not stopping those mischievous Gen Y-ers from getting their SMS on while behind the wheel. According to a new survey of 1,200 citizens conducted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance (we know, we know), a third of the Gen Y-ers admitted to “always multitasking while driving,” and while the “always” bit does indeed frighten us a tad, the real juice was in the next

statistic: 37-percent said they sent text messages while driving. Before you start belaboring the imprudent youth, think towering and hard about your own in-car cellphone usage — remember that duration you just had to reply “y w pep plz” in order to salvage your friend’s pizza order? Tsk tsk.

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Original post by Darren Murph