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Texting And Driving Persuasive Speech

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On the 21st of July 2015 in Minnesota a young teen is charged for murder. On that day, Carlee R. Bollig, 17, had been texting and updating her Facebook while driving with a few friends giving zero concerns as to what was happening around her as she was driving. As she was driving and playing on her phone her very own friends repeatedly told her to get off her phone and pay attention to the road but Mrs. Bollig disregarded her friends and told her friends that she "didn't car if she had crashed" only seconds from the collision. Carlee had ran a red light while on her phone and had charged a minivan with a father and a ten year old girl, Cassy, who was his daughter. His name was Charles Maurer, a 54 year old man, father of 3 children. It was …show more content…

Even with 1 simple distraction while driving, people don't understand that not only they are the ones who are in danger but everyone their around is in danger as well because I'm a split second almost anything can happen in a blink of an eye, anything! Tons of people have experienced near death incidents due to texting and driving and have developed a disability. All of them would wish to go back and change it all. Think about it for a second, if you've experienced a car crash and developed a major disability wouldn't you want to go back in time and change everything about what happened that tragic day? No one should have to suffer for mistakes you've made and if you don't want to end up in a certain way the best advice to give is to just make the right choice. Why is it so hard for people to choose the right over wrong? Is it really that hard? Some might not even think about that, some will just risk it all and go with the flow to eventually see what might happen which is not the right move. All it takes is 2 - 6 seconds with a blink of an eye for something to go wrong while texting and driving. Almost anything can happen which is

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