Final Report Comparison study of the prevalence of cell phone use while driving in the City of Victoria, British Columbia A final report on the research project surveying the number of drivers using a cell phone in Victoria, BC after the ban on cell phones went into effect in January 2010. April 30, 2010 Enquiries should be directed to: Glenyth Nasvadi ICBC Mana [...] Cell phone use while driving in Victoria, BC 4 Direction of the traffic flow for purposes of observing vehicles was randomly chosen at each of the intersections. Location of the researchers at each of the intersections was chosen as either before or after the intersection. Number of lanes, ranging from 1 to 3, was noted in the observation field notes. At 34 of the sites, data collection [...] Cell phone use while driving in Victoria, BC 6 observed, there were 350 drivers observed using a cell phone. The time spent at all of the collection sites combined was 854 minutes, a total of 14.2 hours of observation. The percentage of male and female drivers using a cell phone was 67.4% and 32.6% respectively. Of the 236 male drivers observed, the number of male drivers without passe [...] Cell phone use while driving in Victoria, BC 8 In 2009, the number of drivers using cell phone ranged from 2 to 15 while in 2010, there were 0 to 6 drivers observed using cell phones at the collection sites. In addition to there being fewer drivers using cell phones observed, many drivers were seen to be using Bluetooth technology. There did not appear to be a notable geographic pattern