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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Texting While Driving While the ability to communicate away from our homes or work has become a vital tool to connect with family‚ friends‚ and emergency management agencies‚ it has also evolved into a tool of great danger when used while operating vehicle‚ particularly texting while driving. Texting while driving has become as dangerous to driver and passenger safety as are people driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. The number of teens killed because 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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Texting and driving laws should be enforced teenagers and young adults because texting on a phone while driving can cause many fatal accidents. Many families lose their loved ones from accidents caused by texting and driving. Parents should be against this because it is a big distraction while driving‚ which causes people to take their eyes off the road for a few seconds‚ which can be enough to drive a person off the road or into another vehicle. Parents should also be the ones to warn their teenagers
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While Kelley was driving on I-4‚ a friend texted her. Kelley picked up her phone and read the text. While she began to laugh‚ she looked up and started to realize that she was too close to the truck in front of her which started to brake. Kelley was too late to react on time and got into a bad accident. Luckily she made it out alive‚ but she could have ended up losing her life. Although a lot of people text while driving‚ they never admit that they do so. As illustrated in the real life example before
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Mrs. Mann English 4 21 April 2010 Texting while driving is NOT worth the risk The number one source of driver inattention is use of a cell phone. Drivers that text or talk on cell phones while driving are four times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). My first and only wreck so far‚ since I receiving my license a year ago‚ was caused because of texting while driving. Luckily I wasn’t going very fast‚ so no one
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Essay Many accidents are blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage. However‚ some opponents feel that creating a law against cell phone use infringes their personal rights. Others think that banning someone from using their cell phones is equivalent to telling someone that they can’t adjust their radio or chat with someone else in their car. However‚ using a cell phone‚ whether talking or texting‚ while driving can be extremely dangerous; it should be made
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November‚ 2010 Texting While Driving May be Bad Cellular devices today have come with many conveniences and luxuries. They have definitely made communication so much easier. However‚ when it comes to road safety‚ cellular phones may be considered a hazard especially text messaging. Today I will explain why I disagree with texting while driving is an unsafe practice. Ever since the creation of text messaging came about‚ society has grown aware of the dangers of texting while driving. Text messages
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Texting While Driving In 2011‚ at least 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones which equal 1.3 million crashes. In the year 2009 alone‚ nearly 5‚870 innocent lives were taken due to careless driving while using a cell phone behind the wheel. In statistics of Oklahoma 2008 car crashes‚ 1298 accidents were cell phone related‚ nine of which resulting in death. Overall cell phones cause roughly a quarter of all accidents in the United States. “And a rough consensus between science‚ policy‚ and
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one of the purposes that the phones were made to serve as. While distracting drivers‚ having a part in killing‚ injuring people and making it a public concern. Obtaining a cell phone is easy considering that it is inexpensive and affordable and serves as multiple uses such as GPS‚ calling and even checking the weather outside‚ it serves as a calculator‚ and has many other features. "Studies have shown that talking on a phone while driving can increase the risk of an accident‚ but
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