Texting while driving is a growing problem. With many young people owning cell phones and also starting to drive, whom do they learn from? They learn from their parents who, sixty-seven percent are addicted to looking at their phones. Teens learn from their parents, therefore this escalates matters. As you may know, every year 200,000 motor vehicle accidents are caused by texting while driving. In my humble opinion; just one accident caused by texting while driving, is one too many. Here are some
Texting and driving is something that causes many accidents on the roads. Everyone knows that texting and driving is wrong and could cause an accident. Since that texting and driving is a potentially dangerous behavior, that every single driver behind the wheel knows, but does I anyways because of the deviant behavior and mindset towards texting and driving. When you text and drive you are knowingly taking a risk of an accident because of how texting distracts a person from driving properly. Texting
With growth of technology comes a new trend such as texting, e-mailing, or checking Facebook and Twitter on personal mobile devices. Sure it is convenient to be able to check all the social media in the palms of your hand, but there is a time and place to check your phone and behind the wheel of a car is not that place. Society is making social media so urgent that people are putting themselves and others around them in danger. Texting while driving has recently been a trend that is troubling society
Texting while Driving “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
and others than why do we as great state allow texting and driving to be legal? I am student attending Cypress Woods High School who cares about the protection and safety of others. I believe driving while texting should be illegal and enforced strongly in the state of Texas because, throughout the years of an increase in crashes, injuries, and fatalities suggests that we need to stand up and resolve these careless catastrophes. Driving while texting is unfortunately becoming accustomed to our culture
Is texting your friends or family more important than your life? I think that the majority of people would agree that your life is more important than answering a text message. Many people die or get injured every year because of using their cell phone while driving. “One out of every four car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.”(Cell Phone Use While Driving Statistics) Using a cell phone while driving is dangerous, distracting, harmful, and may cause accidents.
who were texting were 23.2 times more likely to crash to those who weren’t texting (Cell Phones and Texting). The increasing amount of crashes caused from texting and driving and growing and becoming more of a problem. Distracted driving is an increasing problem in the United States resulting in many accidents, but a solution to the problem would be banning cellphones while driving. Distracted driving is such an
Just imagine driving down the road, seeming as if there are no cares in the world; one second later a child runs out in front of the car, but no one sees him because their eyes are glued to their cell phones. An innocent life has just been lost because a click of a button. Some people do not realize how dangerous texting and driving can really be. Most people consider themselves to be great at multitasking; well, when it comes to texting and driving, no one can really predict what the outcome could
Many states prohibit texting while driving. In fact, laws have been established that prevent drivers from using their cell phone unless it is an emergency. About 73% of drivers say it is easy to text and drive, however 1.3 million car crashes are caused by texting and driving. An effort to band texting and driving in Texas is at limbo in the Senate and was one vote shy of having enough members agree to bring it to the floor. (Tinsley 1) Senator Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo states that they are so very
address the new problems….. The problem with the interstate highways system is the people texting and driving. Texting is a big problem on the highway no matter if you just look at your phone for 2 seconds it is still a problem cause anything can happen in a matter of seconds. It is common for someone to send a text while there driving, sending a text doesn’t seem dangerous. While your texting and driving there are a litany of other factors at play. Being on your phone and driving is very common