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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9/16/173rd Cellphone In my opinion i think using a cellphone while driving should be illegal because people could get in an accident. One reason i think cell phones should stay illegal while driving is because your insurance rate goes up. When your insurance company finds out that you have been cited for texting while driving your insurance may go up or possibly your policy will be dropped. Texting while driving could be very expensive whether you get pulled over and given a ticket or
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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 Vs. Drinking and Driving Mariah Henry COM/170 December 11‚ 2012 Michele Davidson Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving The nation risks a relentless rise in deadly accidents unless it makes texting while driving as forbidden as drinking and driving. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes from the road long enough to drive the length of a football field while driving an average speed of 55 miles per hour; that does not include having a reaction
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accident where you or the other person is texting and driving. A cellphone is used to contact people from a far distance. Cell phones should not be allowed on the road. I think that because one you don’t have your eyes on the road when you text and two you never know when a car comes around the corner and you’re texting. If you have also read about texting and driving you know that it can lead to serious injuries. If you do anything other than driving you don’t have your full attention on the
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Cell Phones While Driving Day after day‚ everyone has seen a driver who texts and calls while driving. In fact‚ texting while driving has become an epidemic for people of all ages in the United States‚ and sadly‚ I am a part of this social issue. According to Ann McFeatters‚ a writer for The Scripps Howard News Serive‚ “The White House‚ learned that 6‚000 people were killed last year because of distracted drivers.” This figures into a serious problem. Therefore‚ I do believe that no driver
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Texting While Driving is a Deadly Combination Texting and driving is a bad and dangerous thing for a teenager to do. Texting while driving is one of the ways that teens are injured or worst case scenario‚ killed. Every year 6‚000 people die because of distracted driving and almost half a million suffer severe injuries. If the teenagers that died texting while driving were still alive; I’m sure they would’ve thought twice about texting behind the wheel. If you text or talk while driving‚ then
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Teenage Texting While Driving With the advent of the smartphone‚ life has become much easier for all of us. We can now make a phone call‚ text‚ access social media sites and other pertinent applications all from one device. While the advances in the cellphone industry are amazing‚ they have come with dire consequences. Texting while driving has now become the leading cause of death of teenagers in the United States‚ overtaking drunk driving. Nearly every teenager looks forward to driving‚ it represents
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The National Safety Council states that: “cell phone use while driving causes 1.6 million crashes each year.” Texting while driving is mostly operated by teenagers‚ but as society develops a lot of adults are starting to contribute to it as well. Texting while driving is very distracting to the driver. Texting while driving has also become a recent and huge problem in our communities. About 78 percent of people own cell phones today and just imagine how many of those people own and operate a vehicle
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Makeda Reid Professor Taylor MLA Research 2150 17 November 2011 Texting While Driving: A Deadly Dilemma When Gary Golatas climbed into the passenger seat of Allyson P. Smitter’s sports car on the morning of July 4‚ 2011‚ he had no idea that she would be taking him for his last ride. According to an article in the Terlingua Daily Express‚ Golatas‚ 17‚ and Smitter‚ 18‚ had planned a holiday excursion to festivities in nearby Appaloosa County. Six months later‚ it was no holiday when a Kiva
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