phones when driving‚diverts the driver’s consciousness away from the road‚promting in accidents and deaths.It should be mandatory to ban their use while driving.The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.Normally‚ drivers do not take this seriously‚about 72% of them admit to talking on their cell phones when driving.Whereas‚ a quarter of them reported to texting while driving (NHTSA survey). Cell phone use in addition to driving is a dangerous
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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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I. TITLE: The importance of making bans on cell phones usage while driving nationwide. A. General Purpose : To persuade B. Specific Purpose: To convince the audience that the use of cell phones while driving should be prohibited and that there should be laws implemented nationwide against it. C. Central idea: We should share the opinion that everyone need to have an avoidance to the use of cell phones while driving and that it should be made illegal nationwide simply because it is a dangerous distraction
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about a problem we have been researching. The subject that I chose is speeding in Utah County‚ Ut. I care Because I Have seen people get hurt. I also care because I see people every day that speed like there is no speed limit. I have read and researched three articles I wish to speak about. First‚ everyone takes speeding too lightly. In an article‚ "Speed limits: dangerous driving puts lives at risk." It writes that speeding puts everyone inside and outside the car at risk. If somebody were to
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there be a ban on cell phones while driving? Over the past decade‚ the technology of cell phones has progressed tremendously. With this technology‚ people can now make phone calls‚ text‚ check their e-mail‚ and surf the net. More than ever people are using their cell phones while driving; this has caused an increase in the amount of deaths caused by distracted drivers to increase tremendously. Many states have placed a ban on the use of cell phones while driving; some states will allow people
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distracted driving. Should driving and using your phone be banned‚ I say yes. Governor Rick Perry vetoed this law stating‚ “Overreach‚ a government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults”. I believe passing this law will raise awareness in teen drivers which are in the highest amount of accidents involving cellphone usage. Passing this law will also save lives‚ and enforce severe punishment for driving using the phone. There should be more advertising about the dangers of texting and driving. You
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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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Persuasive Presentation Outline Example Driving While Intoxicated Topic: Local San Marcos Problem Organization: Problem/Solution Specific Purpose: I would like my audience to believe that an alcohol education class should be taken before one can receive his/her license Introduction I. Attention Getter: In the past decade‚ four times as many Americans have died in drunk driving accidents as killed in the Vietnam War (NHTSA‚ 2006). II. Relevance: How close have you come to losing your
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us/alcohol-drug.htm#what http://www.nysdwi.com/newyorkdwi.html http://alcoholism.about.com/od/about/a/symptoms.htm In New York State‚ the crime Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) consists of an individual testing a Blood Alcohol Level (BAC) of .08 or higher. Producing a BAC of .05 to .07‚ or any other evidence of impairment results in Driving While Ability Impaired (DWAI). Both DWI and DWAI offenses carry with it a range of penalties and consequences. First offenders for DWI and DWAI are fined
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Cellular Phone Use While Driving: Risks and Benefits Karen S. Lissy‚ M.P.H. Joshua T. Cohen‚ Ph.D. Mary Y. Park‚ M.S. John D. Graham‚ Ph.D. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Harvard School of Public Health Boston‚ Massachusetts Phase 1 Report July 2000 Executive Summary This report assesses the risks and benefits associated with cellular phone use while driving. The interest of policymakers in this issue has been heightened by the recent decisions of selected foreign countries and
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