Persuasive Essay On Texting

Texas texting while driving bill
In 2009, Alex Brown crashed her car on her way to school because she was distracted by the text messages on her phone. Alex Brown was from Texas and was going to a school in West Texas. Her family founded the Alex Brown foundation. They traveled around the country, to educate the drivers about the dangers of texting while driving. This accident got attention from the media and it led to the ban of texting while driving in various states in the United States, but ironically, not in Texas. Since the accident, Tom Craddick, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, has tried to ban texting and driving in all the cities of Texas three times. The first one was in 2011.
In 2011, Tom Craddick filed House Bill 243, the “Alex Brown Memorial Act.” However, it did not become a law. The Former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, vetoed it. Perry said that although texting while driving is “reckless and irresponsible,” the bill “is a government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults.”
But Craddick did not get to his purpose once again. The bill passed the House, but did not have the votes needed to bring it to the Senate floor. I believe that taking into account that one out of five crashes in Texas are caused by drivers who are ‘distracted’ and that 88% of US citizens support laws that would prohibit drivers from text messaging or emailing, it is ridiculous that the Bill has not yet become a law. As it is stated in an editorial on Dallas news, “[t]oo many Texans have died, been maimed or shattered other people’s lives over a texted LOL or BTW. No text message is so important that it’s worth inflicting such misery on others.” Although Texans know that texting while driving is dangerous they continue doing so. I think that if there was a law prohibiting it, accidents caused by distracted-driving would be significantly