An Avoidable Threat
“A call or text isn’t worth taking a life,” said Oprah Winfrey during a campaign to increase awareness about the threats of driving and texting at the same time (“Texting while Driving,” 2010, p. 5). Thousands of people die annually due to car accidents in the United States. The saddest thing is that most of them are innocent victims of someone who decides to send text messages while driving a deadly weapon. Raising public awareness of how dangerous it is to drive distracted is a duty of American government. Also, measures need to be done throughout the country to decrease car accidents and the promote general welfare. Therefore, the United States should ban texting while driving because this behavior poses a grave threat to the safety of American citizens and the ban does not infringe American’s freedom.
The first reason why the United States should ban driving while driving is that this behavior poses a serious threat to the American population. As a result of sending text messages at an inappropriate time, drivers, pedestrians, and passengers are in serious danger and can suffer severe injuries or even death. Motorists who type or read text messages behind the wheel are extremely distracted, that is why they run the same risk of colliding as drunk motorists. For example, Maggie McIntosh, a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates, stated that drivers must take their eyes off the road and their hands of the wheel when sending a text message,
Safe driving is really important in the world today. Texting while driving can lead to a lot of things. First, if a person drive while texting they could run over someone and possibly kill them because their eyes wasn’t on the road. The person could go to jail for years just because they wasn’t paying attention to the road. Second, if a person drive while texting they can hit someone car
There are approximately 11 teen deaths each day because of texting and driving. It is clear that if people would stop texting, talking or using other apps on their phones while driving , then there would be fewer accidents. The number of teens dying from being injured has skyrocketed as a result of texting while driving. It is estimated that there are over three thousand teen deaths and three hundred thousand injuries nationwide. A recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute showed that drivers who are texting are two times more likely to crash or almost crash compared to those who are focused on the road. There are thirty nine states and the district of Columbia that ban texting for drivers on a statewide basis. A federal survey showed that there are ninety four percent of Americans that think texting and driving should be illegal. Clearly, car accidents have increased because of the use of cellphones while driving and something more must be done about this problem.
Texting while driving can restrict your reaction to somebody leaving nowhere, whether if it’s a youngster, a grown-up, or a gathering of teenagers. Current Health Teens magazine distinguishes, when you content and drive there is "less time to reaction to a roadway risk". While having less time to react to something in the street while texting and driving it may prompt numerous mishaps and passing. What's more, the utilization of your telephone while driving can bring about an unsafe domain to the individuals around you out and about. "Texting While Driving" expresses that texting and driving had turned into a "noticeable social issue, and it is a most risky practice that dangers mischances to drivers, cyclists, and people on foot." Anybody
The parents of a popular 17-year-old who died on the first day of school are urging teen drivers to resist distracted driving after police confirmed Deianerah L. was texting when she crashed into the back of a school bus. Deianerah died shortly after the crash near Byron. It was the first and last day of her senior year. She crashed into the back of a bus. Ethan Hinton, 7, was exiting the bus at the time of the crash, and was knocked down by the impact, but the student was not seriously injured. "I got a terrible bruise, and she didn't make it," Hinton told FOX 9 News (Capacio and Beno). Evidence is growing in support of banning cell phones while driving.
Cell phone use while driving is a terrible distraction. When driving a motor vehicle, you are supposed to be 100% focused on what’s going on around you. There are many crashes because of people using their cell phones while driving. People that cause the crash are severely injured, and so are the victims of the crash. The law should be enforced over the issue of texting and driving; it would save more lives.
Texting and driving is extremely hazardous to a persona the people surrounding them. The lives of innocent people are taken every day, due to a simple mistake of looking or reading a text message. Texting while driving, itself is extremely dangerous, but what’s even more surprising is that researchers are connecting it with drunk driving. Driving while texting is the second leading causes of death or injury on the road, drunk driving being the second. If more people are aware of how closely related drunk driving and texting are then they would probably stop. Texting while driving puts many driver’s lives in danger daily. Many people feel that staying connected to what’s outside of their distance is more important than focusing on the road ahead, although it isn’t. Texting while driving can harm others and the driver itself. If people would open their eyes to the dangers of texting while driving, less car accidents would take place every year and the roads would be much safer. Distracted drivers need to know the position they put others in as well as themselves. It’s very unfortunate to see anyone getting killed due to texting while driving or are just a product death of it. While behind the wheel, drivers should never direct their attention to their cell phone and should always keep their eyes on the
Imagine being at an intersection, and just when you think no one is there you proceed to step on the gas, and you get text from your friend saying “ Where you at bro?” thinking since it’s your friend you look down at your phone for a split second, but then you lose focus and let go of the wheel slightly and end up turning onto the other lane which put in a dangerous situation, luckily there wasn 't any cars coming. These are the type of disasters that texting while driving can cause.
Imagine as someone’s son, father, and husband is on their way to work when their cell phone rings, indicating that they have received a text message. Instead of waiting until they get to work to check their phone, they decide to read it, blowing through a red light and crashing into an ongoing car severely injuring themselves and killing the other person they hit. The driver happened to be a single mother of three kids. Three kids who will now have to spend their childhood mourning the loss of a loved one from an accident that never should have never happened. This has been the reality that America has been living in for years now. Texting while driving plays a dangerous role in the lives of Americans, causing more motor vehicle accidents than
Is the importance of using your cellphone while driving worth ruining your future and the futures of others around you? Driving and using your cellphone splits your attention, as you are distracted towards the conversation putting yourself and others at risk. It’s life threatening to drive and use a cellphone at the same time because you lose your focus on the road, “Creating a crash risk that is 8 times greater than someone giving the road their undivided attention,” according to David Strayer, who over the course of 15 years researched and experimented on distracted driving. (David Strayer P.139)
Automobile crashes, caused by texting while driving is like a plague that has spread throughout the nation over the past decade. Whether people think they can safely type on their phone while driving, or just don’t think there is any real danger in the act does not matter. The act none the less is very dangerous because you are not only putting yourself in danger but also you’re putting the lives of the people around you in danger and therefore texting while driving is something that must be stopped. To do this the
Texting while driving puts many driver’s lives in danger daily. Many people feel that staying connected to the outside world and answering a quick message is more important than focusing on the road ahead or saving lives by paying attention. It can harm others on the road who are doing nothing other than trying to make it to their destination safely, which is nothing you should ever be punished for. If people would open their eyes (and keep them on the road) to the dangers of texting while driving, car accidents take place every year would decline rapidly and the roads would be much safer to drive on. Distracted drivers need to know the position they put others in as well as themselves but unfortunately most of them don’t ever see what they’re
Since humans are smaller and less noticeable than vehicles, sending a message using cell phones makes it almost impossible to see a pedestrian in a driver’s peripheral vision because the driver is looking at the cell phone slim. The driver would be penitential and blamed forever because his to her decision to pick up the phone while operating a vehicle causes someone to suffer a life-altering injury or be killed. In fact, this kind of accident not only affects the driver and the victims themselves but also negatively influences at least two families. Sometimes the family of the offender has to pay a fine which is so massive that the family is broke. Therefore, considering the detrimental effects on texting while driving, the United States government needs to unify the texting-while-driving law and make texting at the wheel a primary
Drivers should not be able to use their hand held cell phones while in a moving vehicle. Too many teens and young adults are being killed each year in texting and driving related accidents. Teens and young adults must be educated about the effects, benefits and laws of texting and driving in order to keep adults and teens
Texting and Driving is a huge issue all across of America. According to NCBI, “Cellphones and the practice of sending and receiving text messages while behind the wheel was responsible for 3,179 deaths and 431,000 injuries in the United States in 2014 alone”(Official, 2016) Unfortunately, these numbers are bound to rise unless texting and driving is banned in every state in America.
Death rates are currently at an all time high, and it is most certainly because of texting while driving. Nowadays, one can find hundreds of essays on this horrible problem, but the problem still hasn’t been fixed. If America truly wants this problem to be fixed, we would do something about it. Statistics show the incline of crashes due to texting and driving. " An estimated 450,000 people were killed or injured last year in distracted-driving accidents” (Halsey 6 ). If texting and driving was taken more seriously then we would have reduced the death rate by a lot. “ Text messaging has been around for about a dozen years, with public surveys showing overwhelming agreement that it's a dangerous distraction while driving” (halsey 7). It is extremely dangerous, It’s dangerous for everybody on