causing a domino effect of crashes. Cars are tumbled‚ glass everywhere‚ children screaming. Texting and driving is responsible for over 1.6 million crashes each year. Texting and driving is responsible for the deaths of innocent lives of friends‚ neighbors‚ family members‚ and children.
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having cell phones for everyone in their household‚ but they have become a major topic of tongue with texting and talking while being on the road. You can find many reasons as to why texting and talking can be very life threatening when driving your vehicle. Either way‚ you may be threatening your life‚ and the people that surround you. Although cell phones are most convenient for talking and texting to someone‚ are they really worth the risk of
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teenagers die each year in crashes due to texting while driving (Ramirez). Texting and driving not only puts a high risk of danger on the driver‚ but creates a dangerous environment for everyone surrounding them. Surpassing drinking and driving‚ the leading causes of death among teenagers is texting while driving. Virginia Tech studies show that anyone who texts while driving makes a crash 23 times more likely to be in an accident (“Dangers of Texting While Driving”). Also‚ if the driver is dialing they
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------------------------------------------------- Cell Phones and Texting Endanger Teen Drivers Disclaimer: You have requested a machine translation of selected content from our databases. This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. Neither Gale nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. Cell Phones and Texting Endanger Teen Drivers Nancy Mann Jackson is a reporter who specializes
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blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage.” Many drivers today have such busy lives and never have time to get the things they need to do complete in one day’s time. This leaves them to get things done while on the road. Checking emails is a top priority for Americans and since many have Smartphone’s‚ they will do it on the road as well as send text messages. There are many laws being established to try to prevent distracted driving from happening‚ although
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Commentary Texting while driving is a fairly new but very serious issue not only among teenagers but also adults. The issue is new because texting is a recently new way of communicating between individuals and since it is growing and becoming more popular most people text. Now put this common task to the test by driving at the same time and most of the time the result is not good. One of the main issues of this is car crash fatalities. There have been plenty of car crashes due to texting. People think
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we go about our lives without rethinking the repercussions that could arise from our routine actions. Roughly‚ over 8 people are killed and 1‚150 are injured each day from vehicular crashes involving a distracted driver (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). “New research from AT&T shows nearly 4-in-10 smartphone users tap into social media while driving. Almost 3-in-10 surf the net. And surprisingly‚ 1-in-10 video chat (AT&T).” “7-in-10 people engage in smartphone activities while driving
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100‚000 accidents a year involve drivers who are texting. (www.itcanwait.com) Our natural instinct when we feel the vibration from our cell phones or hear our cell phones going off is to check it‚ right? We do this often‚ especially when behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. Most of us do not see the danger we put not only ourselves‚ but others‚ in every time we check a text or email or phone call while driving. The advertisement‚ “Texting and Driving: SD Department of Highway Safety”‚ is a very touching
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AT&T It Can Wait Introduction How tempting does it sound to glimpse at a text while driving on an empty road? I know for myself and the rest of my generation how hard it is to resist that temptation of grabbing the phone to send a text. Most of the time‚ the text may not even be that short so it seems okay to grab it really quick and reply back to that friend. Everyone at some point in time has been warned by many family and friends of how dangerous it is to text and drive. This problem of
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No State Left Behind: Laws Against Distracted Driving In Idaho and as a Nation The majority of the people in the world don’t intentionally put themselves in dangerous situations‚ yet tragedies occur every day. Each year a motorcycle hill climbing competition is held in New Plymouth‚ Idaho called the Big Nasty Hill Climb. On September 19‚ 2009 my sister’s best friend Lacy Fine set out for a day of fun with her cousin Brittani and her cousin’s boyfriend Carlos to watch the hyped up event. She’s never
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