motor-vehicle crashes.” Remember there is an average of 3‚000 deaths annually because of texting while driving. That is 300 more fatalities than drunk driving. Jacob Masters‚ an author for Brain Injury Society‚ states‚ “Drivers who are texting while behind the wheel have a 23% higher chance of causing a crash. That is equivalent to downing four beers and then getting behind the wheel.” When someone is texting and driving‚ he/she eyes aren’t on the road and aren’t aware of his/her surroundings. On
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forensic lab. She was looking forward to finishing at Fairmont and moving on to a four year college. Heather made a terrible mistake on the fatal night of December 29‚ 2009. While texting a friend she struck a guardrail doing about sixty miles per hour‚ causing her car to flip and slide down into a ditch costing her‚ her life. Texting while driving is a senseless way for people to be injured or even killed. Just imagine living out your life feeling as thou you could have prevented a death‚ or
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Texting While Driving While the ability to communicate away from our homes or work has become a vital tool to connect with family‚ friends‚ and emergency management agencies‚ it has also evolved into a tool of great danger when used while operating vehicle‚ particularly texting while driving. Texting while driving has become as dangerous to driver and passenger safety as are people driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. The number of teens killed because of
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Cell Phones While Driving Day after day‚ everyone has seen a driver who texts and calls while driving. In fact‚ texting while driving has become an epidemic for people of all ages in the United States‚ and sadly‚ I am a part of this social issue. According to Ann McFeatters‚ a writer for The Scripps Howard News Serive‚ “The White House‚ learned that 6‚000 people were killed last year because of distracted drivers.” This figures into a serious problem. Therefore‚ I do believe that no driver
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had been drinking and texting behind the wheel. This example goes to show that every choice comes with a price. In this case the driver chooses to go behind the wheel while intoxicated and chose to text behind the wheel that resulted in a horrific accident that hurt the lives of many. As of 2008 data from the article driving while distracted 6‚000 people died in car accidents because of distracted driving. First‚ I will be informing you on the pros and cons of banning texting while driving‚ secondly
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been cited for texting while driving your insurance may go up or possibly your policy will be dropped. Texting while driving could be very expensive whether you get pulled over and given a ticket or have been in an accident to where you would have to pay for hospital bills or to fix up your car. Texting while driving could be very dangerous especially if you have passengers in the car. Sending or reading a text message while driving puts your passenger’s lives at a
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How has texting affected teen literacy? This is one question asked by many‚ and not always answered. After doing much research‚ I have come up with an answer to this question. There are pros as well as cons to texting when it comes to teens. The pros of texting are that texting allows teens to communicate with each other more often. Another pro is that they have the capability to call a parent when in a situation where alcohol or drugs are involved. While texting can have some pros‚ it also
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Jake Morris Texting Effects on Written Communication Skills Abstract Text messaging‚ especially in young people‚ is setting up the dynamics that will present challenges as they continue to grow and mature. Those challenges will present themselves as an inability or difficulties in forming proper sentences and perhaps even result in being unable to differentiate the basic writing nuances in words that sound alike‚ but have different meanings. This effort on the
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many discussions and debates on the different aspects of how technology has and will continue to change the ways we live our day to day lives. The articles therein discuss topics from how you conduct research now compared to only a few years ago‚ to texting‚ emailing or instant messaging someone instead of calling‚ to something as simple as prioritizing daily tasks in some sort of electronic device instead of on a physical calendar. I will discuss some of the major points of the essays presented in the
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Teenage Texting While Driving With the advent of the smartphone‚ life has become much easier for all of us. We can now make a phone call‚ text‚ access social media sites and other pertinent applications all from one device. While the advances in the cellphone industry are amazing‚ they have come with dire consequences. Texting while driving has now become the leading cause of death of teenagers in the United States‚ overtaking drunk driving. Nearly every teenager looks forward to driving‚
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