Distracted Driving

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Distracted Driving Kelsey Raffaele was driving home one day, when her car ran off the road and had hit a snow bank and spiraled into oncoming traffic. She then got T-boned by a SUV. She was rushed to the hospital where she died without even regaining consciousness. Police had recreated the scene with chalk and had thought to have been the causes from just a novice driver. Until they had found a cellphone in the back of the mangled car. Kelsey was actually on the phone while driving, and had crashed. The last words Kelsey got to say was “I’m Going to Crash” over the phone to a friend (Lowy). She is not the only one who uses cellular devices and drives, she was just one of the few who did and got in an accident. There is more than just texting, there’s GPS, radios, Mp3 players and another big one is other passengers. Distracted driving is getting easier for you to do and for more than one reason, there’s the new technology that keeps coming out keeping our eyes from the road, texting is probably the worst distraction and passengers really help lead to car accidents. In 2009 a federal data report had said that distracted drivers where the cause of 3,331 deaths and injuring an additional 387,000 (Fuller). “Car accidents are the No. 1 cause of death of teens” says Cricket Fuller, he also says that “a quarter of all teen-driving crashes are attributed to distract driving”. Even though the death rate of teen drivers is going down, an average of seven deaths a day still occur (Kowalski). Debacco-Ernie had said that “any time a teen driver is out on the road after 10 p.m., the probability of them being involved in a crash increases dramatically” (Carr). 4.6 seconds is the time to travel the length of a football field if you are go... ... middle of paper ... ... Teens Who Text and Drive Take Even More Risks." Gannett News Service: n.p. May 10 2013. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 7 Nov. 2013 . Kowalski, Megan, and Jayne O'Donnell. "Big Brother Watches Teen Drivers." USA TODAY. 18 Jul 2013: B.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 07 Nov 2013. Lowy, Joan. "Study: Distracted Driving Deaths Underreported." Gleaner. 08 May 2013: n.p. SIRS I Neyfakh, Leon. "Why We Can't Stop." Boston Globe. 06 Oct 2013: K.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 Dec 2013.ssues Researcher. Web. 07 Nov 2013. Solis, Steph. "California Court Bans use of Smart Phone Maps while Driving." Christian Science Monitor: n.p. Apr 08 2013. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 7 Nov. 2013 . Vlasic, Bill. "Designing Dashboards with Fewer Distractions." New York Times: B.1. Jul 06 2013. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 7 Nov. 2013

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