Drivers that text while driving are 4 times more likely to get into crashes serious enough to hurt themselves or someone else. 1. According to a study teenagers are more suseptible to car crashes and fatal road crashes. 2.One of the surprising statistics about texting while driving is that it is more dangerouse than driving under the influence of alcohol or marijuana. C. Considering the distraction of the driver in texting while driving, this activity keeps the driver involved in texting for around five seconds, which on a highway means a hundred yards.
AT&T’s Texting and Driving Campaign Your cell phone rings. You flip open your phone and the text says “where u at.” The time you took to respond to that text while driving took five seconds. Five seconds that could have changed your life or another driver’s life. While driving at 55 miles per hour and reading and responding to a text that takes approximately five seconds, you are driving blind at the distance of a football field (Box). If you were asked to drive with your eyes closed for five seconds, you wouldn’t attempt it; but drivers still respond to texts, which is the same thing.
Thomas B Falkner III, a third year student at Thomas M Cooley Law School, interrogates this, and after being peer reviewed, he published his work in the National Distracted Driving Summit in 2010. Falkner describes texting as an “epidemic” that is sweeping the nation, and that many young drivers believe they can use their cell phones while driving without any impairment on their driving capabilities. He simply states, “Well, they can’t.” Falkner hopes to get all states to make laws prohibiting the act of texting while driving by showcasing the state of Michigan and their impressive decrease in annual car accidents since enforcing the law (Falkner). This law prohibits drivers from reading, typing, and sending text messages while their cars are in motion. The law made allows a police officer to pull a driver over if they suspect a violation of any of the three aforementioned acts while
While driving, adults and teenagers cannot resist the urge to pick up their cell phone and send a text or respond to one, as soon as the driver’s eyes meet their cellular device; their focus on the road is drawn away. In 2009, 5474 lives were taken and 448,000 people got injured from car accidents from being distracted while driving says the “Outlawing Text Messaging While Driving: Legislators in Several States Respond to Safety Concerns”U.S. News and World Report Article. The lives of innocent people are being taken every day due to a simple distraction. Car crashes are four more times more common to take place while the driver is on their mobile device over any other causes.
When a teen gets to that age all they think about is driving, but when they turn that age parents just begin to worry. “Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group funded by the auto insurance industry, acknowledged the idea is "a tough sell," but noted that car crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers” (Irvine). That is a big statistic to ignore. Pennsylvania had 242 deaths which involved a teenage driver in 2008, third among all 50 states behind that of Texas, 650 deaths, and Florida with 516 deaths (California DMV). Teenagers are reckless and we must do everything reasonable to prevent deaths.
| The Dangers of Drunk Driving Did you know that when you drive under the influence the likelihood of getting into an accident is 1.4 times more probable than if you did not? The Nation Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol related. Teens often abuse the power of alcohol resulting in a dangerous situation like DUI. The dangers of drinking and driving can ruin your life forever and can result in fatal crashes where you or others can be killed. Drunk driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.
Even today, one in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime. Our children share the road with an estimated 2 million drivers who have had three or more prior drunk driving offenses (MADD). There should never be a question about refraining from driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. You not only put your life at risk but you risk the lives of others. What if you witness a friend that has been drinking and/or doing drugs attempting to get behind the wheel of a car would you let him or her or would you do everything in your power to stop him or her?
Jenny Zbar Ms. Deangelo English 3 26 October 2012 Effects of Texting and Driving Texting and driving causes the driver to be less focused on the road. Just five seconds is all it takes to get in a car crash. This is the amount of time it takes to make that crash fatal. Those few seconds can make a huge impact. For example, driving at 55 MPH and not looking at the road for those few seconds is the amount of time it takes to cross over one football field.
Texting and Driving: Deadly Distraction DeVry University Deadly Distraction Another shift, another fatal crash, and another helicopter transport of a trauma patient in critical condition. While on scene, State Patrol stating the cause of this motor vehicle crash was the uninjured party texting while driving. With studies proving cellphone use while driving is comparable to alcohol levels of 0.19 percent, then education, laws, and penalties for cellphone use while driving, should mirror the same education, laws, and penalties associated with driving under the influence (DUI); zero tolerance. A four car pileup in Pennsylvania involving a tractor trailer and three vehicles, two fatalities, 6 injured. The driver of the tractor trailer
Distracted driving has become an increasingly immense problem on our nation’s roadways as cell phones have become more common in our day-to-day lives. Cell phone use while driving is the No. 1 distraction behind the wheel. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that in 2010, driver distraction was the cause of over 18 percent of all fatal crashes with 3,092 deaths, and crashes resulting in injury with 416,000 people (FCC). According to the National Safety Council, 23 percent of all crashes each year involve cell phone use, resulting in 1.3 million crashes nationally (FCC).