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Article: Coffee can be deadly? Maybe so if you're driving, insurer says
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Coffee can be deadly? Maybe so if you're driving, insurer says
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Resist that luscious jelly doughnut while
driving to work and don't grab for the coffee. One distracting spill
and you could end up in the ditch.
Coffee and doughnuts are among the "10 deadliest foods to eat
while driving," according to Hagerty Classic Insurance, which insures
collector vehicles.
The Traverse City-based company began researching the issue after
getting a claim from a customer who had been in so many food-related
wrecks that his license included a restriction against driving while
food was within reach.
"People areprone to become distracted while eating," company
president McKeel Hagerty ...