texting and driving have more serious consequences?” Most think before they drink and drive‚ but most do not think twice about texting and driving. Next time you are in the driver’s seat and about to pull out your cell phone‚ think twice and think about the dangers involved in text while driving. In today’s lifestyle‚ text messaging is a main form of communication. People impulsively respond to that buzz of their cell phones and often tune out the surroundings. Texting while driving takes away the
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Research Paper Raising Driving Age to 18 In the 13 July‚ 2011 USA Today newspaper article by William Van Tassel‚ manager of AAA’s driver training program‚ says that‚ “ Teens do continue to drive distracted even when they recognize the dangers‚” According to the teen driving statistics that are provided by the CDC‚ about 3‚000 teens died in auto accidents in 2009 and 350‚000 were treated for injuries. For all those reasons‚ I think the legal driving age should be raised to 18 from 16. One
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What is distracted driving? In today’s over-regulated society‚ we seem to have forgotten how to apply common sense in our everyday life. Take driving for instance: driving is a privilege‚ not a rite-of-passage‚ therefore we should always stay alert and exercise caution when driving. I’ve seen people doing a lot of activities while driving that have the potential to cause an accident. Some examples I’ve seen people doing are: eating food‚ drinking a beverage‚ reading a map‚ putting on make-up‚
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Driving Age Teenagers need to be able to drive to get to school‚ work and sport practices. People think that teenagers shouldn’t be able to drive at such an early age but when really even if they were to start when they were 18-years-old they would still be a hazard on the roads. Teens need to be able to learn how to drive at some point so the earlier they learn than the quicker they become more safe drivers. Learning how to drive is one example for how teens can show their responsibilities by getting
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teenager driving home from a football game late Friday night. Its pitch dark out and the teen can barely see when completely focused on the road. Then the teen feels his phone ring in his pocket and he reaches to check it‚ taking his eyes from the road for just a split second and then bang‚ he swerves off the road and hits a mailbox. Of course this isn’t an extreme example of what can happen from texting or distracted driving but it is dangerous none the less. One of the most common deaths in teens is
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Distracted driving has always been a problem with our country since cars were invented but recently it has become an even bigger issue‚ now it is the leading cause of teen deaths. In our day and age cars have gotten faster and technology has gotten more advanced. We now have cell phones that can do multiple things and our cars also have their own technology. Cell phones pose the main threat towards distracted driving especially for teens. Since phones have been getting more advanced and being able
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Seira Sanchez Teen Driving Issues Project Cell Phones and Driving Cell Phones and Driving. Cell phones and driving are an inclining issue for this century and causes many teen related car accidents. This is caused when a person uses a mobile device and becomes distracted from paying attention to the road and unfortunate events lay ahead. The probability of this person being in a crash is 4 times higher if conversing‚ and 23 times more likely if sending a text. Statistics have proven that in 2008
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Texting and driving has been a huge cause of collisions that result in deaths. Many teens now have better access to a phone and are often snap-chatting and using other means of social media‚ while still behind the wheel. This is a growing problem across the nation. It puts the teens in the car at risk and everyone around them. According to the national safety council‚ about 1.2 million collisions were caused by being on the phone in the year of 2013. Almost 341‚000 of those collisions were a result
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reason is that listening to rap music may cause young listeners to have terrible behavior. This type of music show many activities that support excessive spending money on brand name goods‚ expensive cars‚ etc. These things may be easily imitated by teens and can urge them to become materialism and extravagant person. “Rap money‚ Drug money” and “Money in the bank” are some bad examples of Kool G rap’s song. Many rappers proudly admit that discussing sex and money in their song is the only thing they
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Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait Contents Portrait Highlights Measuring Health Risk Behaviors Changes in Overall Risk-Taking‚ 1991-1997 Multiple Risks and Positive Behaviors Reaching Multiple-Risk Teens A Time for Cautious Optimism Endnotes Portrait Highlights The most serious threats to the health and safety of adolescents and young adults are preventable. They result from such risk-taking behaviors as fighting‚ substance abuse‚ suicide‚ and sexual activity rather than from
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