What Are The Pros And Cons Of Texting While Driving

When driving down the highway, people hear that recognizable text ringtone. They begin to think, “Maybe it is my friend telling me the update on the party this weekend or my mother calling to see where I am at. What if it is an emergency?” It appears to look like traffic is not going to be moving anytime soon, and knowing it will only take a few seconds to respond, they do. Before they know it, the car in front of them stops or the car behind accelerates and then there is an accident. Texting while driving behind the wheel diverts the driver’s attention off the road, the driver loses their focus, and the factor of risk increases by many folds.
Texting and driving has become an issue in today’s society. Using your cell phone while driving can cause you and innocent bystanders to be killed or injured. In 2014, a

Depriving the use of having cell phones while driving will make the driver more focused and they will not be worried about who had texted them. The text can wait and the phone can be put somewhere, such as the glove department, until it is a safe time or at a safe place to use them. According to the National Safety Council, 1,600,000 accidents happen each year due to texting and driving along with 330,000 injuries per year (Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Study). Just because you get away with texting and driving once does not mean you will come out lucky a second time. An Oakdale teen, Amanda Clark, crashed her car twice while using her phone. Amanda believed she was able to talk on the phone and drive like a pro until she rolled her car and walked away. She wrote in her diary, “I would never talk and drive again.” She told her family, her boyfriend, and her best friend that she would be a better driver and put her cell phone away. One year and one day after her first crash, she drove off a freeway embankment while texting. She did not make it out alive that