Snapchat And Driving Statistics
Snapchat is a mobile photo messaging and multimedia sharing app which was released in september 2011 by evan spiegel bobby murphy and reggie brown.
Snapchat and driving statistics. Internet users aged 15 to 25 use snapchat. For the older generations snapchat is a super confusing trend. Government website dedicated to helping to prevent distracted driving accidents and injuries these types of accidents are responsible for more than 430 000 car accident injuries each year. Snapchat statistics 2020 here s a summary of the snapchat statistics for 2020.
Using snapchat is a form of distracted driving one of the leading causes of car accidents in the united states. We re not sure if this one is a real snapchat video or not but the driver is definitely distracted. According to distraction gov the u s. Over 210 million snaps are created on snapchat every day.
Even while snapchat was struggling to pick up users revenue was steadily edging upwards in the tail end of 2018 the second half of the year tends to be better for many apps. Distracted driving can also include eating disciplining kids visiting with passengers checking gps and any other activity that diverts a driver s attention away from the. Record snapchat revenue at the time of writing stats were posted in q4 2018 coming to 389 8 million in total. I once heard an uncle asking why on earth would anyone want to send a picture that disappears.
Statistics show that the number of people using cell phones or other electronic devices while driving is approximately 660 000 at any given moment during daylight hours. When you are driving the best thing that you can do is to focus all of your attention on the act of driving. Snapchat lets you easily talk with friends view live stories from around the world and explore news in discover. Fatal accident in manchester england.
India ranked in second place with a snapchat audience base of 28. Life s more fun when you live in the moment. The fact that there are that many distracted drivers on the road is cause enough to make even the safest of drivers nervous when behind the wheel. Snapchat user posting snaps at 142mph blows through a red light the next morning doing 80 and rips an audi a5 in half killing the audi s driver story and pictures.
As of q1 2020 there are 229 million daily active snapchat users worldwide. Snapchat and driving you could be sending your last snap. More than half of all u s. Amongst millions of youth though snapchat is huge.
The snapchat and driving statistics are scary.