Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving Mariah Henry COM/170 December 11‚ 2012 Michele Davidson Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving The nation risks a relentless rise in deadly accidents unless it makes texting while driving as forbidden as drinking and driving. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes from the road long enough to drive the length of a football field while driving an average speed of 55 miles per hour; that does not include having a reaction
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ages of 18 and 24 are texting while driving. Texting while driving should be illegal. Texting causes crashes‚ injury‚ and possible death. Texting and driving is a huge problem in America‚ especially among teens and young adults. One reason why texting and driving should be illegal is it distracts the driver from the road. Another reason why is because it endangers the drivers around the person who is texting. The third reason why is because teens and young adults lack driving experience and combined
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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 your cell phone you didn’t see that stop sign let alone that mini van with the 3 young children. All they can see now is the inside of the casket‚ while you’re looking at 25 to life I know this is
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Running Head: The Dangers of Texting and Driving The Dangers of Texting and Driving It was an evening I will never forget. What I saw that night will impact me for the rest of my life. The night started off normally. My girlfriend and I went out to enjoy a nice dinner with my family‚ but the night took an unexpected turn on our way home. We were driving along I17 and decided to exit the freeway to stop and get gas. We noticed a car fly by us at an incredibly fast rate
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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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Bibliography for Texting While Driving DeVry UniversityAnnotated Bibliography for Texting While Driving So many people are affected by the actions of those‚ when it comes to texting while driving‚ from kids‚ sisters and brothers to aunts‚ uncles and others who suffer in in result. Ttexting while driving impairs the driver’s abilities‚ because of this‚ many people has died from innocent adults to innocent children. People text while in school zones‚ and even use the internet while driving‚ to navigate
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is the ultimate consequence of texting while driving. It has not only started to take over our country over the past couple of years‚ but also has become the most common leading factor for car accidents around the world. In fact‚ over three thousand people are killed every single day due to texting while driving‚ leaving many injured. It seems as if this problem is only getting worse as the years pass by. The majority of the people think that texting while driving is a really simple task to complete
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Analysis of I am Texting While Driving What makes texting and driving so dangerous? According to Mike Lukovich‚ it can lead to death. Lukovich’s cartoon is originally from the Atlanta Journal Constitution‚ and taken from the website haha.nu/entertainment “I am texting while driving.” It displays a two panel scenario. The scenario consists of a driving man in the left panel and of a figure many recognize as death in the right panel. The message that the artist is conveying in this cartoon can be
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Five Seconds Five seconds may not mean a great deal or seem like significant amount of time to be concern about; however‚ a driver spending just five seconds to read a text message while driving can mean more than what most drivers anticipated. It can mean a person’s life. Sarah Rogers was only 8 years old when driving in a car with her mom. On a four-way stop sign a car crashed into their car hitting the mother’s side at 60mph. James Trolley was the driver who crashed into them and because he decided
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Texting and Driving Adrianna Contreras Kaplan University CM220 Professor Thompson May 1‚ 2012 In the middle of the night‚ a police comes to the Johnsons door to tell them that an accident has occurred and that their teenage daughter is deceased and another teen is in critical care. The accident was caused by texting and driving. Now the Johnsons have to go the morgue and identify their daughter‚ this is an accident that could have been prevented. In the Treasure Valley‚ there have been
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