Use of Phone While Driving The amount of teenager and adults that use their phone while driving has increased greatly in the past years. This not only has caused a wide range of injuries‚ but also numerous deaths. Overall‚ phone interaction is dangerous and phone users should be aware of this fact. Travis Burhart stated‚ “A mere five letters can change a person’s life forever.” This quote is very true to those who constantly check their phones while driving a car‚ that could potently kill or injure
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Texting while Driving Texting and Driving has been one of the leading causes of death in the U.S... Texting has increased since 2008 by over 70 billion percent‚ and out of this teens are the ones who text more. The most ardent texters are teenagers between the ages of 13 to 17. Teenagers have a higher chance of texting and driving. Text messages can be useful to change plans‚ arranging for rides‚ or asking a question and parents will also be able to keep track of their child’s whereabouts‚ but
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drinking while driving are very dangerous and known to be very common in most people who drive today. When you are on the road you never know what could happen‚ anything could happen within seconds. Texting and drinking while driving are both similar because they both come out with consequences; both drinking and texting are distractions and can be very fatal. Anyone texting or driving are increasing the risk of their own life but pedestrians around them. The consequences of texting and driving can easily
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Teen Driving Safety Melissa Tortella Kaplan University Teen Driving Safety “In 2010‚ approximately 2‚700 teens in the United States between the ages of 16-19 were involved in fatal car accidents and almost 282‚000 of these teens suffered injuries in car accidents.” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ n.d.). Given this information‚ this proves that car accidents have become the leading cause of death in teens in the United States. “The risk of being involved in a car crash is highest
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provide professional driving services to someone‚ you’ll need to learn some more advanced techniques. You may not ever actually need to use them‚ but the one time that you do‚ you’ll be thankful that you went through your extra training. Those advanced driving techniques can be summarized under the topic of "defensive driving"‚ and it’s a type of driving taught at some specialized schools across the country. You won’t be able to get this type of driving lessons from any driving school‚ mind you -
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Pennsylvania changed the driving age from sixteen to seventeen or higher‚ fewer accidents would occur. Many sixteen year olds (boys in particular) have a ‘nothing can hurt me’ attitude. As a result‚ many teens feel the “need to speed‚” just to get a rush. Not only is speeding a criminal offense‚ but speeding teens are endangering their own life‚ and possibly other’s lives as well. One of the most risky activities that young teens can participate in is drinking and driving. Driving while under the influence
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How distraction will affect driving? Name Bob‚ Roadwise Driving School 2014/08/07 In the modern age‚ driving is an internationally shared tool; a privilege of which is consistently abused by those who ignore the safety of others. A driver is only as safe as his peers allow which is why there are innumerable signs‚ laws and regulations in place. Across the nation‚ drivers are causing danger to themselves and those around him by distracted himself. By distractions‚ it is important to note
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Ideate of Distraction and Driving Driving and texting is often influenced by the poor usage of social action in relationship‚ technology revolution‚ and social media. The usual method of preventing accidents‚ today‚ is “to put an end to our own distractions in the car by taking a pledge‚ that you are making a promise to help put an end to distracted driving”(VanWey)‚ and the ban of usage of cellphone while driving. The best method to prevent accidents is to educate every driver in the country. It
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Distracted Driving Imagine this‚ you wake up for work on a Monday and you realize you are almost late. You rush yourself as fast as you can to get dressed‚ brush your teeth‚ and grab a small greek yogurt you had stored in the refrigerator. Grabbing the keys to your car is the last thing before heading out the door‚ and so you quickly start the vehicle once you are in. Down the road you grab your phone that is connected to the auxiliary cord to play that daily morning wake up song‚ but did you know
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The thing that is most shocking to me is the leading causes of death in teenage driver. I never would have thought that driving off the road would have been the leading cause of death among teenagers at around 30%. I always thought that the cause of most deaths was texting while driving‚ drunk driving‚ and speeding. Even though speeding was one of the top five at 22%‚ I was still surprised that none of the other things that I thought would be on the list were on there. Other statistics state that
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