Essay On Distracted Driving

Texting and driving is one of the big problems with technology obsession. According to The Federal Communications Commission, in 2012 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that driver distraction was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes and also, The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that it is 23 times worse to text and drive than driving not distracted. All this is just making texting and driving more dangerous. According to Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press, although there are laws against it in some states, 98 percent of drivers who own cellphones admit that they knew it was dangerous and three-quarters of them admitted to texting while driving and two-thirds admit to checking their phone at a red

Also 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving and it is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk. If you think about it, answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds, and if you’re traveling at 55 mph, that’s long enough to travel the length of a football field and doing that almost blind. Eleven teens die every day from texting while driving and 15 percent of the distracted drivers between the ages of 15-19 years old were using a cell phone. All of this shows how many people were lost and how likely it is to get injured all just to send a text. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 14 other states, prohibit all drivers from using handheld cellphones while driving but without any other traffic offense taking place. But no state bans all cell phone use for all drivers, but 38 states and D.C. ban all cell phone use by novice drivers, and 20 states and D.C. prohibit it for school bus