Texting While Driving by Liz Coram How many people text behind the wheel of their vehicle? Can we relate to the following story? Jaci Lemons* is driving down the street‚ headed to school. The 17 year old driver is texting another friend. As she looks down to read the incoming text‚ Jaci veers off to the right and crashes head-on into the back of a parked vehicle. She is taken to the hospital‚ but after brief examination by the attending ER doctor‚ Jaci is released. Thankfully‚ the only thing
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Texting and Driving Texting and driving kills 5‚000 people a year. It is a very dangerous thing to do. Statistics show that most of the people dying while texting and driving are teens. It can lead to very horrible accidents on the road. Texting while driving is dangerous. It is dangerous because while you’re reading a text‚ you’re eyes aren’t looking at the road for at least 3 seconds‚ maybe even more. An accident can happen in under a second. While you’re looking at your messages‚ someone could
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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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Texting and driving is a hot topic in the United States and is debated often by many people. Some people think texting while driving should be a felony‚ while others do not. Texting while driving has many horrifying consequences‚ tips on how to avoid the problem‚ and scary facts and statistics. First‚ texting and driving can have horrific consequences. Hundreds to even thousands of innocent and guilty lives are taken yearly (Texting While Driving). Eleven teens die every day from texting related
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Texting and Drinking While Driving While being behind the wheel in a vehicle‚ he or she should always be alert and aware of what they’re doing. A good amount of recent car accidents have been from feeble-minded people driving while intoxicated‚ or texting when they should be focusing on the road. In my opinion not one is more dangerous than the other because they’re both life threatening. There are many similarities and differences between texting while driving and driving while drunk
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Dangers of Texting and DrivingPublic SpeakingCOMS2303October 14‚ 2014Dangers of Texting and DrivingI think texting and driving is dangerous and whether or not it has affected you as of now‚ statistics show it could in the future. Did you know that texting while driving is now one of the most common distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road today? Imagine if someone in your family‚ your mom‚ dad‚ or sibling were killed by a driver who was texting‚ how would you feel? Would you think‚ was
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Imagine you are driving down the highway and suddenly a car hits the car in front of you. In that car there was one adult‚ one teenager‚ and toddler‚ and a newborn baby. The car that was hit got flipped over multiple times. No one in the car managed to survive that accident. This all happened because the driver decided to pull out their phone and text a simple “Yes.” Texting and driving is a huge problem in the United States. Many laws have been passed to prevent texting and driving. It also causes
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known as “texting”. Unfortunately texting has also become a huge safety concern when it occurs while driving. While certain distractions while driving are inevitable‚ texting while driving requires serious attention and focus and thus should be outlawed in the US. The new Wireless Communications Device Law (effective January 1‚ 2009) makes it an infraction to write‚ send‚ or read text-based communication on an electronic wireless communications device‚ such as a cell phone‚ while driving a motor
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laws being established to try to prevent distracted driving from happening‚ although they can’t completely stop it. No matter what age the driver is‚ under no circumstance should they be texting while driving. Texting or using a cell phone while driving is very hazardous to yourself and the people surrounding you. One reason the majority of people are against this action is because it causes a great amount of car accidents every year. While driving‚ adults and teenagers cannot resist the urge to pick
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amount of careless things a person could do; texting while driving is in my personal top five. So many people are glued to their phones now that they can’t go five minutes without their fingers frantically clicking away at the buttons or laughing obnoxiously to someone on the other line. Too many are dependent on technology‚ so much so that just answering a simple text could result in a devastating accident. Something that most don’t think about while driving is how using your cell phone can distract
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