Put Your Phone Down - Take the Distracted Driver Glovebox Challenge and Save Lives

Hollywood, California, January 7, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Distracted driving is a topic that continues to be in the news, especially as we celebrate the holidays when the number of people traveling the roads spikes in the U.S. More than 3,100 people were killed and an estimated additional 424,000 people were injured in distraction-affected crashes in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Administration.

To encourage people to stop driving while distracted, DistractedDriversBusted.com created the 30-Day Glovebox Challenge. To join the challenge, people can videotape themselves putting their cellphones into their gloveboxes, share the video on social media, and then commit to keeping their phones in their gloveboxes while driving for at least 30 days, with the goal of maintaining this safe habit for life.

DistractedDriversBusted.com was founded by Howard Drescher, a victim of distracted driving. "When I was hit by a distracted driver while on my motorcycle, I hit the ground doing 65 m.p.h. I shouldn't be here but I am, so I wanted to make a difference,” says Drescher, the Creator and Executive Producer of DistractedDriversBusted.com. “Creating this organization and the 30-Day Glovebox Challenge helps to bring something good from my experience. I don't want another person to go through what I did. This epidemic has got to stop. Your life may depend on it."

"I love that this 30-Day Glovebox Challenge brings new life to that part of our cars that we don't pay much attention to and gives it a new purpose that can help save our lives," says Orgena Rose, Manager and Producer of DistractedDriversBusted.com "That phone or that text...it's not worth your life."

DistractedDriversBusted.com is also the home to TV show that follows real stories of people who have been affected by distracted driving accidents. Each 30-minute episode is hosted by Kim Schlau, who lost her two teenage daughters to a distracted driver who was traveling 126 m.p.h. while on his phone, and Rose who admits to having been a distracted driver. The hosts connect with both the driver and victim of a distracted driving incident to hear their stories and bring them together for a face-to-face encounter to bring healing, forgiveness and closure.

For more information on the 30-Day Glovebox Challenge, visit http://distracteddriversbusted.com/