While Kelley was driving on I-4‚ a friend texted her. Kelley picked up her phone and read the text. While she began to laugh‚ she looked up and started to realize that she was too close to the truck in front of her which started to brake. Kelley was too late to react on time and got into a bad accident. Luckily she made it out alive‚ but she could have ended up losing her life. Although a lot of people text while driving‚ they never admit that they do so. As illustrated in the real life example before
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Habits Texting Has Caused throughout the United States “Beware the Dangers of Texting While Driving.” Texting While Driving July-Aug. 2010: n. pag. http://www.google.com. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. . Cell phones have brought us a lot convenient ways to talk to people. When it comes to road safety‚ the cell phone is very hazardous. Accidents have increased dramatically since texting has become more popular and people have taken chances of texting while driving. Even the small amount of time to glance at
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Mrs. Mann English 4 21 April 2010 Texting while driving is NOT worth the risk The number one source of driver inattention is use of a cell phone. Drivers that text or talk on cell phones while driving are four times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). My first and only wreck so far‚ since I receiving my license a year ago‚ was caused because of texting while driving. Luckily I wasn’t going very fast‚ so no one
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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 even life-long injury of a friend‚ family member‚ or an innocent civilian just by setting down your phone‚ and focusing on driving. Thinking about it
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Texting while driving is very dangerous and comes with many consequences. There are many accidents every year along with injuries as serious as death. People are not only sending texts‚ but they are checking the news‚ weather‚ and even using social media instead of paying attention to the road. This is putting everyone around them in great danger. Drivers aren’t allowing themselves to focus on the road to become a safer driver. We all hear in the news that there was a car crash since someone being
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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‚ it represents
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The National Safety Council states that: “cell phone use while driving causes 1.6 million crashes each year.” Texting while driving is mostly operated by teenagers‚ but as society develops a lot of adults are starting to contribute to it as well. Texting while driving is very distracting to the driver. Texting while driving has also become a recent and huge problem in our communities. About 78 percent of people own cell phones today and just imagine how many of those people own and operate a vehicle
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Texting While Driving Even More Dangerous The popularity of texting has caused an unforeseen danger- texting while driving. It has been proven scientifically that texting while driving reduces your awareness by almost half‚ and that texting while driving is over four times more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. These are very disturbing results for anyone on the road‚ especially since it has been proven that an estimated 65% of drivers are texting and driving every single day
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Browning Professor Nance English Composition I 2 December 2014 Texting While Driving‚ Why is it a Norm? A group of friends were crossing the street when bam! A car ran a red light and struck them. The driver was texting on the cell phone. Each year‚ 5‚000 traffic fatalities are caused by distraction on a phone (Key Facts: Distractions). This statistic from the American Automobile Association shows the dangerous effects of texting and driving. However‚ many states are now looking at laws to change
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Texting and Driving Outline Topic: Texting while operating a motorized vehicle Purpose: The purpose of this essay to to show the dangers to you and others on the road while texting while driving. Audience: Teen Drivers Police Parents Any liscensed driver Thesis: Unless the benefits of cell phones outweigh the risk of texting while driving‚ we should restrict the use of cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. Preview: Texting and driving should
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