Prohibit Cell Phone Use While Driving

No human life is worth a cell phone. States have been passing laws to prohibit cell phone use while driving. Though some people may not agree with my stand on this topic, I wholeheartedly believe cell phones are a distraction that needs to be eliminated. When someone gets distracted behind the wheel of a vehicle, accidents happen and accidents will kill. Using a handheld ,or any kind of phone, will take your attention away from the task at hand, driving. No matter how great of a multitasker you are no one can watch their screen and the road at the same time. Not watching the road will lead to either you getting hurt or an innocent person getting hurt at your hands. Take my sister, Paige, for example. Paige was only eighteen years
All she knew was that she she could not feel her legs. Paige, star athlete with her whole life ahead of her, was paralyzed from the waist down. Want to know how banged up the other guy was? He got a concussion. In the days after Paige woke up we slowly got to know what exactly happen. The boy had been on the way to his mom's house for dinner and was running late. He decided to call and tell her just that. In reaching for his phone, he swerved into my sister's lane. He got distracted, he got in an accident, and he paralyzed my sister. How can someone be that selfish? How can someone show absolutely no regard for human life? No phone call, text, or email is worth that. Nothing is worth the loss of a human life. Using a cell phone while driving is an inexcusable act. Handheld cell phones can be great, but never when driving a car. Paige will never walk again, never play soccer again, never swim again; all because someone decided that their need to use a cell phone while driving was more important than someone's life. Cell phones are a unnecessary distraction. They should be illegal and I dream of a day where its not just a few states here and there where using a phone while driving is illegal, but where it is illegal