Personal Narrative: The Entrance Of Texting And Driving

When I was about seven years old, someone pulled right out in front of my parents. We missed hitting them. When I was nine, we almost backed into another car coming down the road. The lady was on her cell phone, not paying any attention to the road. When I was 13, we finally did hit someone. It was my brother’s fault. My brother should have been more focused. These are all things that happen to everyone at one point in their lives. It’s inevitable. I think if people were to pay more attention to the road, crashes would happen less often. Driving can be dangerous, and people can be even more dangerous if not focusing on the task at hand.

I know some people who text and drive, because they have either told me, or I have been in the car while

This ice cream shop is right next to the intersection that I observed for 45 minutes. The sun was high in the sky; the blue sky was bright and cloudless. Trees waved in the wind; kids ran and played around my parked car. There was a woman in the car next to me with obvious wrinkles in her face that I guessed were from stress, considering that she was having a hard time with her child in the car. He wouldn’t put his seatbelt on, is what I had got from the situation.

The people in the moving cars were doing many things. There were multiple people without seatbelts. Texting and driving was also incredibly common among the drivers; many were just staring at phones, or talking on them. Many people were also eating and driving, 15 coming out as the total. 5 kids in all were sitting in the passenger seat up in the front of the car/truck. The kids looked to be between the age ranges of 7-11.

My friend’s mother goes through that certain intersection every morning, so I decided to interview her. “I drive this road and through this intersection everyday. It is my route to work,” she told me when I asked how often she used this intersection. When I asked my next question, “How comfortable are you around this intersection?” she answered again with the fact that she drove this route