Professor Nance English Composition I 2 December 2014 Texting While Driving‚ Why is it a Norm? A group of friends were crossing the street when bam! A car ran a red light and struck them. The driver was texting on the cell phone. Each year‚ 5‚000 traffic fatalities are caused by distraction on a phone (Key Facts: Distractions). This statistic from the American Automobile Association shows the dangerous effects of texting and driving. However‚ many states are now looking at laws to change these
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Kassandra Vera Part 2: Texting While Driving Professor: Jolanta Kiurshanoska English 215 Nova University 18th August 2013 PART 2: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING Texting while driving didn’t become a global issue overnight‚ but quickly‚ one fatality after the next‚ led to alarming statistics that cannot continue to go ignored‚ and while some families are asking for justice‚ that could never replace the loved ones they’ve lost. Others are demanding a solution to the growing epidemic. In
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Texting and Driving Outline Topic: Texting while operating a motorized vehicle Purpose: The purpose of this essay to to show the dangers to you and others on the road while texting while driving. Audience: Teen Drivers Police Parents Any liscensed driver Thesis: Unless the benefits of cell phones outweigh the risk of texting while driving‚ we should restrict the use of cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. Preview: Texting and driving should
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Texting While Driving by Liz Coram How many people text behind the wheel of their vehicle? Can we relate to the following story? Jaci Lemons* is driving down the street‚ headed to school. The 17 year old driver is texting another friend. As she looks down to read the incoming text‚ Jaci veers off to the right and crashes head-on into the back of a parked vehicle. She is taken to the hospital‚ but after brief examination by the attending ER doctor‚ Jaci is released. Thankfully‚ the only thing
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The use of cell phones while driving can be very dangerous. It is already illegal in some states‚ and should be in all fifty. The use of cell phones while driving has played a big role in wrecks. If the use of cells phones while driving became illegal‚ a large percentage of wrecks would decrease. If people did not use their phone will driving they would be more focused on what there doing on the roads. Operating a cell phone while driving needs to be illegal in all states because it causes wrecks
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Draft 2/20/13 Dangers of Texting and Drunk Driving Have you ever sent a text while driving? Texting while driving has been raising issues in today’s society as 46 percent of teens‚ and more than one in five drivers have admitted to texting while driving (source). This hazardous habit has lead to many studies to expose the dangers of texting while driving‚ and how it compares to drunk driving to all drivers. Texting while driving and drunk driving cause an increase in automobile accidents and
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1 English 115 5 April 2013 Texting While Driving: Worse Than Drinking and Driving I was on the freeway on my way to school when all of a sudden out of nowhere a car pulled into my lane without any signal. I slammed on my brakes because the car almost hit me. The driver never turned to look. I honked my horn‚ but the driver didn’t take into consideration my horn and kept driving. I changed lanes and caught up with the car to see who was driving‚ and it was a young female texting on her phone
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Distracted While Driving Virtually anyone who has a driver’s license has been introduced to the idea that distracted driving causes accidents. However‚ the consequences of distracted driving are far more than just predictable and often taken lightly. Predictable events can be avoided. Since these are predictable events they are preventable. The choices that drivers make affect more people than they may realize‚ thus making them responsible for the consequences that result from those choices
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drivers are getting worse and worse at everyday careless driving. The people of the world as a whole‚ are all to blame for not being more aware while driving and being behind the wheel. With technology booming‚ cellphones are coming into major play for being a major contributor to bad driving. Texting while driving is becoming a really big issue in the common day. [Despite people wanting to do it‚ especially while stuck in traffic‚ Texting while driving should be against the law to prevent fewer deaths
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Bibliography for Texting and Driving In Harris County Texas it is said that one of the most dangerous crimes committed is drunk driving. Unfortunately drunk driving is a big issue hanging over the heads of law enforcement. Harris County is number one in the country for drunken driving fatalities‚ and yet I will make the argument that texting while driving is potentially as dangerous if not more as drunk driving. I believe the reason that this issue is more volatile than drunk driving because everyone is
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