Persuasive Essay On Texting And Driving

You are late to your job. One more tardy and you're out. Gone. Fired. You sprint to the car, wearing the same clothes you wore yesterday. Scarf down day old coffee and drive. You steadily increase your speed along highway 270, noticing little of your surroundings. However, that fear that breathes down your neck, the fear that you’ll lose your job. You have an idea that could save your job, but it's risky, call your boss. You notice that your phone is on the passenger side, inside the cup holder. Taking no thought into what could be the end of a life, dive for the phone. Your car speeds to the left and rams into another car, causing a domino effect of crashes. Cars are tumbled, glass everywhere, children screaming. Texting and driving is responsible for over 1.6 million crashes each year. Texting and driving is responsible for the deaths of innocent lives of friends, neighbors, family members, and children.
55% of young drivers claim that ‘it's easy to text and drive’. 71% of teens say that they have composed/sent a text while driving (NHTSA.Gov). Correspondingly, Consumer Reports states that “Teenagers and Older People are the riskiest drivers” because simply they are the most inexperienced and need the most support. Car crashes are the No. 1 killer of teens. And the youngest drivers are the