Drinking and driving is irresponsible, but so is willfully looking away from the road to attend to something else. According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, if you're driving 55 mph and take your eyes off the road for five seconds, the average amount of time it takes to send a text, you'd have driven the length of a football field without looking at the road. Just imagine all that can happen in the matter of five seconds: a car in front of you going the same speed suddenly slows down for traffic ahead, an animal walks out in front of your car, or an ignorant driver without ample time cuts through your lane to get through a median. You have yourself facing three different crashes for a message. …show more content…
In Arizona and Montana, there are absolutely no restrictions on using your phone while driving. According to a study conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 330,000 injuries are caused every year from texting while driving. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 11 teens die every day. In a single year, 4,015 teenagers will die as a result of texting while driving. Why does our society emphasize preparing the 'generation of tomorrow', but won't increase the penalties for things that prevent their