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    Karissa Stockham English IV. Adv Conard/Pittenger 30 November 2014 The Risks of Texting and Driving Once the television is turned on, the last thing anybody wants to see is of the news of a young person’s traumatic death. What’s worse is the death being caused by something that can be completely avoided. With this increasing problem, something must be done. The practice of texting and driving has become the roads worst cause of motor vehicle accidents and deaths. The new laws created to ban this

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    I agree with the with the City Council “No Texting While Driving” The reason why I agree with the “City Council is because that’s how people get hurt not just you but other people to. Let me tell you about what I mean”. So say if your driving or somebody else driving and there texting and trying to drive at the same time and they looked up to late to see that truck or vehicle coming then boom y’all “crash”. You might be dead or the next person might be dead. Or even y’all badly injured/hurt.That’s

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    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. It is a proven fact that texting and driving is worse than drinking and driving. Texting while driving is

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    Dangers Of Texting and Driving 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

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    Morgan Hege Mrs.Gallos English 3 21 November 2017 The Risks of Texting and Driving Texting while driving can be a deadly combination. Everyone knows how dangerous texting while driving is, yet many choose to ignore the risks. Not only does texting while driving put drivers at risk, it also puts anyone in the car with them at risk and even those around them in danger. Texting and driving takes the driver’s attention away from the road and what is going on around them. And it only takes a split

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    3,000 fatalities per year are caused by texting and driving. Texting and driving puts the motorists in a dangerous scenario. The risk of texting and driving are endless. Young and immature motorists are oblivious to the hazards that are wrapped around texting and driving. But motorists that are older and more mature still text and drive too. Texting and driving puts the life of the driver and the passengers in jeopardy. First of all, texting and driving is very distracting to motorists. People

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    The topic of my PSA is texting and driving. This applies to health class because accidents are the number one leading cause of death in teens and young adults. Inherently, texting and driving is known to cause some of these accidents. The components of health that this topic could fiti into are social health and environmental health. It fits into social health because texting is a social behavior. In addition, the topic is of environmental health concern because when you text and drive, you are

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    Texting while driving can be a deadly combination. Everyone knows how dangerous texting while driving is yet many choose to ignore the risks. Not only does texting while driving put drivers at risk, it also puts anyone in the car with them at risk and even those around them in danger. Texting and driving takes the driver’s attention away from the road and what is going on around them. And it only takes a split second for something to go wrong resulting in tragedy. Texting and driving is dangerous

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    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.

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    while driving just because someone was on their phone. Texting and driving is a real issue in our country and outside of spreading awareness or creating ineffective distracted driving laws. no one has really tried to solve this problem. Texting and driving is a problem because too many innocent lives are lost every day. The Government should implement an app that rewards people for not being on their phone while driving because so many people die every day from texting and driving. Texting driving

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