Texting And Driving Case Summary

I have seen that in some of the articles that I've read have started with a short story of an incident caused by texting and driving as a strategy, I have also noticed that when I have information extracted from newspapers or from sources such as the transportation department they tend to use statistics and numbers as a way to persuade the reader.

The majority of the people in the world don’t intentionally put themselves in dangerous situations, yet tragedies occur every day. Each year a motorcycle hill climbing competition is held in New Plymouth, Idaho called the Big Nasty Hill Climb. On September 19, 2009 my sister’s best friend Lacy Fine set out for a day of fun with her cousin Brittani and her cousin’s boyfriend Carlos to watch the hyped up event. She’s never been the most cautious person because her attention span is that of someone with ADHD or a stereotypical airhead. I say this with love in my heart, because she was literally a part of my family and would never purposefully hurt someone. I can

Texting and driving was and continues to be one of the major factors of car accidents in America’s population. In the following advertisement named, “Phone in one hand, Ticket in the other” it is noted that texting and driving are frowned upon in our society, and the authorities are giving citizens tickets for texting and driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had created and promoted this ad to help decrease car accidents involving texting and driving, by informing the reader, you will be ticketed if you are caught being on your phone while driving a vehicle. The ad was first campaigned April 2015 by NHTSA. There are two messages being portrayed in this advertisement. First, the text of the ad, gets the audience thinking about two possible consequences of texting and driving. Secondly, the images demonstrate what may take place if you are using a cell phone while on the road. Lastly, both the text and images work together to get the message across that if you are caught texting and driving, you will be ticketed, and the use of a cellular device while driving can lead to a car accident. The, “Phone in one hand, Ticket in the other” ad successfully portrays its reasoning for being invented, and I believe the presence of this ad will decrease the amounts of accidents in America.

“Text messaging … had the longest duration of eyes-off-road time of 4.6 seconds at a six second interval. This equates to a driver traveling the length of a football field at 55 miles per hour without looking at the roadway.” This statement was made by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute when they did a texting while driving study (“Skip Menu”). Texting while driving has become a large problem in the United States and it is growing. There are about 1,600,000 accidents per year as a result of texting while driving. Texting while driving has become a bigger problem for teenagers than drinking while intoxicated. In an article Delthia Ricks wrote for Newsday, she says:

Texting and driving has become a recent issue in today's society and is one of the largest epidemics to sweep our nation. The progression of text messaging, with more capable phones and larger numbers of people engaging than ever before, has turned into one of the largest distractions in our world. Many teens, as well as adults, have formed a habit of using their cell phones while driving their cars. Several people do not think that a quick text or even a glance at a phone while they are driving will do any harm. A great bit of accidents has taken place due to a careless individual that decided to look at their phone while they were in the process of driving. These days, phones have gotten even more

About 24,000 injuries per year along with 995 deaths are caused by cell phones (Driving). Texting while driving is more dangerous than driving under the influence. Many risks develop when people text while driving or drive while intoxicated. Some risks include the following: crashes, money, and possibly even death.

Imagine you are driving down the road and you see you have a text message on your phone. What do you do?

For my Argument Text Analysis, I chose the essay “Texting While Driving Needs to Come to a Stop” by Brooke G. Suffern. This particular essay is about the consequences of texting while driving, the texting while driving laws, and what states texting while driving is illegal. By writing “Texting While Driving Needs to Come to a Stop”, Suffern is trying to inform the reader about the consequences he or she can face from texting while driving. For instance, when looking at a text, attention is taken away from the road and all drivers are put at risk.

Have you ever lost a close friend or family member from them texting and driving or someone else texting and driving? I am sure you have been one to text and drive also as much as we hate to admit it. Would you want to be the one who killed yourself or someone just because of that one text? I have personally known two young girls who have been killed from texting and driving. Both were on the same road exactly five months apart. Here is why I believe every state needs a no texting and driving law to ensure that our roads are safe from those individuals who insist on texting while driving.

Texting while driving is something everyone knows to be dangerous, however, many people continue with this risky behavior. Today, most states have at least one law banning the use of cell phones while driving. However, many of these laws are considered secondary laws (Norton, 2015). This means that a police officer must pull someone over for breaking a primary law before punishing them for breaking the secondary law. For example, if a police officer saw a woman texting and driving, he could not simply pull her over. If texting while driving is a secondary law, he would have to catch her speeding or committing another traffic violation first before he could pull her over. If texting while driving was a primary law, the police officer could pull her over simply for texting. If I was a U.S. senator and I had the opportunity to support a bill that would ban texting and driving in every state, I would support the bill. I strongly believe that texting while driving should become, not just a secondary law, but a primary law

Since the beginning of the smart phone era, humanity has come to build relationships with not only people, but their electronic devices. From talking on their phones and exploring apps, to texting while driving, people cannot seem to put down their smart-devices. According to the passage Introduction to Cell Phones and Driving: At Issue, the average amount of texts people send daily runs from around 40 – 110 (2015). It may not seem like the highest number, but knowing that more than half of those messages are sent while driving makes the matter of texting a lot worse. At this point in time, there have been laws prohibiting texting and driving as well as talking on the phone. Yet, to this day, those laws are null and void; regardless, the talking and texting while driving never stops. Although this phenomenon happens daily and causes many minor and major accidents, the probability of seizing this behavior is little to none.

Have you ever seen a car crash and wondered what caused it? Most car wrecks involves people on their phones. Whether it be texting on their phones or just making a “simple” phone call. To many people text or call while they are driving and more and more people are dying because of the stupid decisions people make while driving. Any distraction can cause a car wreck but food and cell phones are the worst distraction anyone can have while driving.

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, texting while driving is very dangerous and distractive and that is why it should be made illegal.

A huge issue in Texas is texting while driving. Most states banned texting while driving but, Texas has fully not. It was once passed as a law in 2011 but it was vetoed by Governor Rick Perry. Actually, this law has been passed twice; unfortunately, it failed since the Senate Transportation Committee didn't agree on the topic so they refused to vote. Do you know how long it takes for you to get distracted and lose control of what you're doing? In a matter of seconds, you look down to read a message on your phone and by the time you know it you're lying in a ditch possibly dead. Texas needs to worry more about their people and ban texting while driving. This is an issue regarding our people's lives; yes, I know your best friend sent you a message

Texting while driving we all know is extremely dangerous. One point remains, why are we having a debate over this? Is it not common sense not to do it? Lawmakers, institute researchers, magazines, and newspapers are all used to make points in the article. ‘‘According to a study in Car and Driver magazines, the texter is a significantly greater threat than a mere drunk.’’ The author is saying that texting and driving is possibly the same amount of harm to people as a drunk driver.