Walking writing was on the phone can endanger lives

Sending messages while walking is dangerous , and such a practice has become quite common .

But this situation is often very dangerous for people to walk and at the same time write messages on their devices have many opportunities to get hurt , because you can walk in front of a car or train tracks ahead .

For the purposes of a new scientific study published by PLOS was followed 26 healthy individuals over the age of 18 , without any neurological or muscular disorder and who do not use their mobile phones every day .

University of Queensland researchers tested the participants , leading them to walk about 28 steps , by asking three exercises : walking without the phone , reading the phone walking and walking while writing a message on the phone .

The study showed that writing had caused the biggest change in gait , where participants did not walk in a straight line and slowed while walking . Because of the concentration required to read and send messages , the body of the block itself to focus on the small screen , causing the loss of the balance of a person walking .

Events around people who have had problems because of such situations have for example in the case of a woman falling into the sea in Australia while he was checking on the mobile social network Facebook .