The National Safety Council states that: “cell phone use while driving causes 1.6 million crashes each year.” Texting while driving is mostly operated by teenagers‚ but as society develops a lot of adults are starting to contribute to it as well. Texting while driving is very distracting to the driver. Texting while driving has also become a recent and huge problem in our communities. About 78 percent of people own cell phones today and just imagine how many of those people own and operate a vehicle
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Makeda Reid Professor Taylor MLA Research 2150 17 November 2011 Texting While Driving: A Deadly Dilemma When Gary Golatas climbed into the passenger seat of Allyson P. Smitter’s sports car on the morning of July 4‚ 2011‚ he had no idea that she would be taking him for his last ride. According to an article in the Terlingua Daily Express‚ Golatas‚ 17‚ and Smitter‚ 18‚ had planned a holiday excursion to festivities in nearby Appaloosa County. Six months later‚ it was no holiday when a Kiva
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Which one would you consider worse; drunk driving‚ or texting while driving? Most people would say drunk driving‚ including me. However; after doing some research‚ my opinion is a little different now. As much as people would like to think that drunk driving is worse; statistics have proven texting while driving to be far worse than drunk driving. Although they are both horrible habits to adopt‚ more than half of the world is guilty of doing at least one of these. In many articles that I have
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This public service advertisement portrays texting and driving as a cause of injury that can be prevented. It seeks to get people to change their behavior by using a close up image of a man being punched in the face‚ comparing his reaction to that of cars crashing into each other due to texting and driving. A close-up view is more effective than a shot taken further away because the detail highlights the violence of the punch. We are able to see the pain in the man’s face while the spit is forced
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The use of cell phones while driving has become a major problem nationwide. Drivers who use their cell phones while driving are prone to causing accidents and being involved in one than without using a cell phone. It has been documented and statistically proven numerous times that texting and driving is one of the main causes of road accidents in this nation‚ therefore‚ it is important that something is done about the use of cell phones and driving to prevent the number of accidents from continuing
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Texting while driving is very dangerous and comes with many consequences. There are many accidents every year along with injuries as serious as death. People are not only sending texts‚ but they are checking the news‚ weather‚ and even using social media instead of paying attention to the road. This is putting everyone around them in great danger. Drivers aren’t allowing themselves to focus on the road to become a safer driver. We all hear in the news that there was a car crash since someone being
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My topic on my argument paper is on distractions while driving. I know that there are a lot of different distractions while we drive. But the one thing that bothers me is the law that there is on texting while driving. I know that it’s not good to text while you drive because how can you be paying attention to the road if you’re looking down. And I also know that all teens like to do now is text rather than talk on the phone. I personally would rather talk on the phone because it seems a little more
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distracted driving. Senator Klobuchar on the committee and senators Menendez‚ Landrieu‚ and Hagen together introduced the Alert Drivers Act‚ which would say that states pass laws banning texting while driving. Though more and more states are passing texting bans‚ it remains the case that fewer than half the states have banned the practice as of today (U.S. Congress). AAA foundation for Traffic Safety reports that 67 percent of drivers admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving behind the
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I’m here to talk to you kids about texting while driving. I know‚ I know you have heard this speech a million times before‚ but I hope that this time you will really listen and learn from my mistakes before it’s to late. I was really just a normal teenager. Seventeen. Doing pretty well in school. Had a great group of friends. I had a really great life going for me. My parents always told me to never text while driving and of course I went to all these school assemblies where people came and lectured
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boyfriend‚ but you over sleep. You wake up all panicy‚ youre already an hour late. You don’t want them to think you stood them out so you don’t even bother changing your clothes or fixing your hair. So you jet off in a rush and head to the car. As you’re driving you decide to send them a text to let them know you didn’t forget and you’re on your way… little did you know you were on your way to the hospital‚ with a pit stop at the county jail. It turns out that in those 2 seconds where you were looking at
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