Study: Distracted driving leads to millions of red-light violations

Typing a short text message or glancing in the mirror to adjust makeup often sends drivers sailing through red lights, a new analysis has found.

Researchers with the National Coalition for Safer Roads and FocusDriven found that out of the 5,808 drivers who ran red lights in videos they examined, 12 percent — or 704 drivers — were driving while distracted. On a national scale, experts projected that 7.3 million drivers blazed through red lights because they were distracted in 2012.