Think Twice about Texting and Driving “In 2010‚ 3‚092 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver and an estimated additional 416‚000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver” (Distracted Driving). Many people do not realize that texting and driving causes so many injuries and deaths. People believe that looking down at a phone for three seconds is okay and will not cause harm. They are wrong; texting while driving causes more accidents than other distractions
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Distractions While Driving Have you ever gotten distracted while driving in a car? Every day that you watch the news you either hear of someone getting into a car accident‚ by either talking or texting on a cell phone. It is becoming increasingly common for people to wreck due to distractions while driving. Talking and texting are just a couple ways that people get distracted while driving. According to The U.S. Department of Transportation‚ in 2008‚ about twenty percent of all crashes in the year
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Texting and Driving OutlineBarbara PoeComm. / 21810 -06-2014John BiroTexting and Driving OutlineIntroduction Hello my name is Barbara Poe‚ my goal today is to convince teens that texting and driving can be hazardous to their lives and everyone else on the roads they travel. I will be trying to persuade them not to text while driving by giving them scary statics. I will be asking teen drivers to take the pledge not to text and drive. Texting and driving is: A. Distractive driving – Taking
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Drunk Driving Penalty Every day 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes on average and 20% of Child Passenger Deaths are Due to Drunk Driving Crashes. Drunk driving is the 15th leading cause of death in the united states today 19 percent of those deaths belong to children between the ages 0 to 14. The drinking while intoxicated penalty should be increased because tons of deaths have been caused by DUI‚ many drunk drivers are repeat offenders‚ and with technology in the 21st century
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someone has been texting and driving‚ putting them in the was of danger (“The Dangers of Texting While Driving” 1). Texting and driving has become a major deal over the last several years‚ due to the increased number of car accidents that have been caused. Texting while driving can put drivers in dangerous situations that they could avoid by just putting their phone away. Over the years texting and driving has become a major issue for not only teens‚ but adults too. Texting and driving has its pros and
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Argumentative Essay Imagine that you are driving home from a liquor store‚ you look at the bottle you bought‚ and it says you’re one of the 28. You take a drink of it and then immediately swerve and hit a car. It sound like the plot to a movie right? But sadly no‚ the reality is that every 51 minutes‚ a person dies due to drunk driving. That’s about 28 people who die everyday because of this issue. And since drunk driving is a growing issue‚ that number is just going to go up. On their own‚ alchohol
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an understatement to say that most of the distractions while driving are caused by a cell phone being used. Drivers need to be aware of the consequences and damage they can make in just one second. Young people talk and text while driving‚ they feel invincible and think it’s okay to break on other many laws we have out there. Driving while using a cell phone could be considered as bad as driving under the influence. Driving while being distracted by a cell phone could end up on something
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The purpose of this study was to test the general theory of crime to conclude if differing levels of self-control have any effect on texting while driving and determine if those with lower levels of self-control engage in more distracted driving behaviors than those with higher levels of self-control. The study sample of two hundred and twenty seven college students at a small‚ liberal-arts university in southern Illinois. A twenty-four item scale was put together to test self-control with response
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On May 3‚ 1980 Candy Lightner lost her 13 year old daughter‚ Cari Lightner‚ when a drunk driver stuck Cari and killed her tragically. Clarence Bush was the man behind the wheel and Candy Lightner had come to learn that he had a grocery list of arrests for intoxication. Unfortunately‚ the police officer working on the Cari Lightner case informed Candy that drunk drivers were not prosecuted harshly and Clarenece Busch would unlikely be thrown in jail for his heinous crime (he was eventually founded
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when it comes to driving. Things are different now than it was ten years go. Young people are most likely to get distracted than older people while driving. Driving down high way I see people either texting‚ eating‚ or playing. One way people get distracted while driving is texting. For the last ten years texting while driving has cause death of many young people. This is why I try to keep my phone in my cup holder because I do not want to be the next victim of texting driving. Young people will
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