Texting and Driving Christian was a victim of a bad car accident. On February 12 Christian had just gotten his driver’s license and decided to go driving one late night. As he was texting his friends about a late party. While he looked down at a message a semi-truck collided into the side of the truck. Christian was then rushed to a hospital with very serious injuries. Although he survived he sometimes felt like he hadn’t. He had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair from being paralyzed
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101 31‚ March 2011 Say No to texting and driving Have you ever considered reading a book while driving? If not then why would you text and drive? Driving is something that requires your full attention. When you open up your cell phone to send a text or receive a text then you might as well get out a book and start reading. Suppose you are driving down the road and your phone alerts you that you have a text message coming in‚ when you grab
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Running Head: IGNORANCE WHILE DRIVING 1 Ignorance while Driving Nicole Vanross Strayer University Savannah‚GA IGNORANCE WHILE DRIVING 2 Many of today’s accidents occur because people tend to act ignorant‚ and do things they are not suppose to do while driving. Driving is a special privilege and skill‚ which includes
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At any given time during the day‚ 660‚000 drivers in the United States use cell phones. Whether its texting‚ taking a phone call‚ or sending emails‚ cell phone use is associated with higher rates of dangerous or fatal car crashes. Accidents involving drivers using their cell phones are avoidable but many people put everyone’s safety at risk by ignoring laws against distracted driving. Should driving and using your phone be banned‚ I say yes. Governor Rick Perry vetoed this law stating‚ “Overreach
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have a habit of driving a vehicle while using a cellphone. This has lead to the outlaw of cellphone use while driving. Those who agree with this law believe it will be very helpful to their community‚ while those against it believe the law infringes on their rights. Those against this law have not considered the positive affects this will have on many citizens. Therefore‚ cellphone use while driving should not be allowed! Those against the outlaw of cellphone use while driving believe that many
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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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Driving while under the influence of either alcohol or drugs in general is not a good idea‚ and is against the law. When you consume drugs or alcohol‚ it alters your perception of everything. You lose control of your thoughts‚ and how you will react to something. You need to have responsibility with your actions‚ and if you are not‚ you have to be prepared for the consequences. Don’t’ drive drunk; nothing good comes from it‚ and it is against the law. It is against the law to drive under the influence
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Texting while driving is a large taboo in this country. We are told not to text while driving in school. We are shown the tragic advertisements‚ the heart wrenching statistics‚ but all of this still leaves a disconnect. It can never happen to me is an unfortunate assumption that most of us make everyday without even intending to be self-centered. The idea that we could cause ourselves or others harm is a mood point that few care to consider‚ but we must if we are ever going to face the epidemic
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hurting any one when they’re driving while on there phone. It can cause injury to much more than just you. You could hit a pregnant mom or a baby can be in the other car people can never know what holds in the future. First and foremost‚ one of the main causes of death every year is car accidents and more children get killed this way more than any other accident event every year since 1985. so people who are on their phones while driving can make the risk of just driving. So all you have to do is pull
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Dayanna Pineros Informative Outline Topic: is social media ruining our minds? General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: to inform students about attention span decreasing INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: by a show of hands‚ how many of you can honestly say you can remember your grandmother’s birthday? Not very many. According to attention span statistics from the associated press gold fish have longer spans than us! 25% of teens and young adults forget major details of close friends
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