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Persuasive Essay : Texting While Driving Needs To End

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Texting While Driving Needs To End
A report by the Highway Loss Data Institute, an insurance industry-funded research group, said, “An estimated 450,000 people were killed or injured last year in distracted-driving accidents”(Ashley Halsey). The amount of accidents that happen yearly on the road has caused controversy of what’s causing these accidents. Many say it's just people who get distracted while their driving, but people don’t understand that its phones that are causing these people to become distracted. Therefore, Texting while driving should be illegal in every state. Texting while driving causes many dangerous and life threatening accidents on the road yearly; if we don’t allow texting while driving, our society will be safer. By making it illegal to text and drive, we can decrease the number of accidents that happen yearly by distracted drivers. Every individual should realize that it is a privilege to drive and should respect the safety of our society.
Texting while driving leads to many deadly accidents. A campaign against people who text while driving was launched by a father who sadly lost his son in a car accident caused by a distracted driver on his phone. A Bill was later passed after the accident, “to give police a device that plugs into a phone and scans logs to see if a driver was texting or calling during the crash. And if drivers refuse to hand over their phones, they would lose their driver's license, under the proposed bill -- just as suspected

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