Our Web/TV package on distracted driving (cell phones, texting, watching TV while driving and so forth) launched Thursday. (Click on the link for the full report.)

As far as I’m aware it’s the first look at who has been convicted of distracted driving since Ontario’s ban took effect in 2009.

It’s a natural tie-in to the OPP crackdown this week.

The data itself is built on Ministry of Transportation records of about 29,000 distracted driving convictions over a one-year period from June 2010 to June 2011 broken down by the first three characters of the drivers’ home postal codes, calculated as a rate against the total licenced drivers by postal code. We got the data, as usual, though FOI.

In the Greater Toronto Area, distracted drivers cluster in the outer 905, with three Burlington postal codes making the GTA top 10:

The suburban/urban pattern changes in Hamilton/Niagara, where urban neighbourhoods in Hamilton and St. Catharines have higher rates than surrounding areas.

Toronto has lower rates than the 905, with clusters more in high-income neighbourhoods than not:

Here’s the video: