According to the National Safety Council in Current Health Teens, a Weekly Reader publication, ´´Nearly 28% (1.6 millions crashes each year) of vehicle crashes can be linked to talking on the cell phone or texting.´´ Texting and driving is a serious issue and is not going away anytime soon. Furthermore texting and driving is not only a danger to the texter but, when people are on the phone while driving, they are endangering others who are on the road . Plenty of people are injured or killed for only being on the road with a distracted driver, and these drivers either don't´ care about the risk of texting and driving ,or, are oblivious to its consequences. A solution is to increase the intensity of the repercussions of distracted driving; When actions have repercussions, people begin to care, therefore this Increase of consequences will encourage people’s awareness of texting and driving. …show more content…
The National Safety Council states in Just Drive, “People who talk on the phone while driving are about four times more likely to crash; those texting are about eight times more likely. Both numbers are worse than driving with a blood alcohol content of .08, the legal limit in all 50 states.” Texting and driving is even riskier than drunk driving, therefore consequences for texting and driving should accommodate that but currently, they don't. Also, many people say as an excuse that they are able to multitask, that texting and driving is doable. According to the Dr. Strayer, a psychology professor at Utah University also in Just Drive, "you look but don't see." Sometimes when the brain is working hard at thinking about one thing--a phone call, for example--the eyes won't see other important things right in front of them.” So not only is texting dangerous but trying to read a text is because your thinking about the text instead of where you're