2012 “Texting While Driving: To Ban or Not to Ban?” Adults and teenagers are making a choice everyday to take their eyes off the road‚ their minds off of driving‚ and their hands off the wheel when they text and drive. The dangers of texting while driving are known nationwide‚ but the numerous deaths and accidents don’t seem to be stopping anyone from texting while behind the wheel. Several major corporations have launched campaigns to educate the public about the dangers of texting and
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Stephen Hayes 12-3-14 English Comp I Mrs. Daniels Texting While Driving is Dangerous A split second is all it takes to send a text. A split second is all it takes to end a life. Most of us don’t think of the dangers that can occur when sending a text while driving. Imagine a sixteen year old teenager‚ driving on the roads; all of a sudden the teen receives a text from a friend. A split second later‚ an accident occurs; the teen that couldn’t wait to send a text has just slammed into the back of
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April 30‚ 2013: A woman driving her Dodge Ram truck on an eastern Texas highway crashes into an SUV kills the driver and a passenger leaving a 6-year-old boy paralyzed. Aug. 23‚ 2016: A motorist in Japan rams into two pedestrians and kills one of them. July 21‚ 2015: A 17-year-old girl runs through a red light after messaging on Facebook for eight minutes. She kills a Minnesota man and his 10-year-old daughter. According to the Chicago Tribune‚ these are all accidents that happened because one person
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December 29‚ 2009. While texting a friend she struck a guardrail doing about sixty miles per hour‚ causing her car to flip and slide down into a ditch costing her‚ her life. Texting while driving is a senseless way for people to be injured or even killed. Just imagine living out your life feeling as thou you could have prevented a death‚ or even life-long injury of a friend‚ family member‚ or an innocent civilian just by setting down your phone‚ and focusing on driving. Thinking about it
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Cause and Effects of Texting While Driving Texting while driving is a major issue affecting today’s society. Texting has grown to be one of the biggest forms of communication among people‚ despite the fact that some of these messages might be sent from behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. As a result‚ distracted driving often occurs removing the main objective a driver should be focusing on; the road ahead. Texting-related vehicular accidents and fatalities have caused a majority of states to
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drinking and texting behind the wheel. This example goes to show that every choice comes with a price. In this case the driver chooses to go behind the wheel while intoxicated and chose to text behind the wheel that resulted in a horrific accident that hurt the lives of many. As of 2008 data from the article driving while distracted 6‚000 people died in car accidents because of distracted driving. First‚ I will be informing you on the pros and cons of banning texting while driving‚ secondly‚ I will
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Habits Texting Has Caused throughout the United States “Beware the Dangers of Texting While Driving.” Texting While Driving July-Aug. 2010: n. pag. http://www.google.com. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. . Cell phones have brought us a lot convenient ways to talk to people. When it comes to road safety‚ the cell phone is very hazardous. Accidents have increased dramatically since texting has become more popular and people have taken chances of texting while driving. Even the small amount of time to glance at
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You are driving around town when suddenly you get a text. You look down innocently to look at the message; not thinking about the consequences ahead. Suddenly you hear a car honking‚ and brakes screeching. You look up at the road ahead just as you collide with another car. Now you are barely conscious as you here sirens‚ an ambulance is rushing you to a hospital. Texting while driving is dangerous to everyone on the road‚ and it needs to stop. As if driving with distraction wasn’t dangerous enough
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Texting While Driving: Is it worth Dying? SP: After listening to my speech‚ I want my audience to be influenced by the dangers of Texting while driving. CP: By the end of my speech‚ I am going to tell you about the disadvantages and the risk factors Texting while Driving entails. [Let me begin by showing a few photographs and I will proceed with a few questions.] I.Attention Can anyone identify what these teenagers have in common? They may all look alike‚ healthy‚ pretty we can say
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Texting while driving is very dangerous and comes with many consequences. There are many accidents every year along with injuries as serious as death. People are not only sending texts‚ but they are checking the news‚ weather‚ and even using social media instead of paying attention to the road. This is putting everyone around them in great danger. Drivers aren’t allowing themselves to focus on the road to become a safer driver. We all hear in the news that there was a car crash since someone being
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