It is a warning shot for those who insist upon wandering along the street gazing down at their smart phone.
Rather unsurprisingly, texting while walking makes you more likely to fall down.
Researchers asked 50 young adults to walk along a tiled path, which sometimes had a sliding tile that would cause them to slip.
They did so either without texting, or while typing the phrase ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ into their phone without predictive text.