Imagine this, you're driving your car with people in the back seat, your music is blasting, cell phone in your hand texting. You stop texting so you can pay attention to the road ahead of you, but ding; you received a text message. You look down at your phone for all of ten seconds so you can respond because you "don't think you'd get hit," but bang; another car runs into the side of yours killing everyone in the car with you. Nine out of every ten people using their cellphones in the car while driving ends up in a car crash. Each one of those crashes could've been avoided if they'd only left their phones alone while driving.
Cellphones make things super convenient for the things that you need done most of the time. It's a fast way to communicate with your friends and your loved ones at any time of the day. If you're bored you can access social media or play games using wi-fi or data on your phone at any time. The one thing that people take for granted, and I will never understand why, is using their cellphone while operating their vehicle. By doing that, you not only put your life in danger, but you put the lives of the people around you in danger also.
…show more content…
Sure technology has improved enough that people can access their device hands free while driving, but you still get distracted by it. You can use a headset for incoming calls, but what about when you look down or over to see who exactly is calling you?What about when you get that text message that you have to reply to, and you look down for a second? Anything can happen in a split second, and not everybody is always ready for for the consequences that