Persuasive Essay On Texting And Driving

1 Here's why i'm against texting and driving. 2 Texting while driving is really dangerous because it causes car accidents if you take your eye off the road even for a second you can put people at risk and cause an accident you could kill yourself or even kill someone else or seriously hurt them. 3 “A Louisville high school senior goes from being a student to the teacher Thursday morning. 19-year-old Wil Craig shared his story about how he nearly died because of texting while driving. His girlfriend was at the wheel, and she was the one texting when the car crashed. "I was dead at the scene of the accident," Craig said to dozens of seniors sitting on the bleachers of the gym. "I had to be cut out of the windshield." Craig's girlfriend walked

"The whole first month of my coma I was on life support." He was in a coma for more than eight weeks. He struggled to learn how to speak, eat, and had many painful surgeries. "It's hard to get up every day and look at myself, because I look at my face and even when I get in the shower I look at my body and there's these scars on the side of my body from where I have chest tubes." Craig says he still has glass and pieces of wood under his skin from the accident, but he is pushing through the pain.” 4 I chose that story because it was remarkable how he survived that car accident after being pronounced dead at the scene. 5 Hearing other people's stories about their accidents or their friends stories about their car accidents caused by them texting or their friends or family texting is persuading to not text and drive because it is to dangerous. 6 People try and save others by telling them their experience about losing a friend or family member or even their own experience in an accident from texting while driving. 7 “ "I think maybe I was meant for this I was meant for talking to large groups of people because I think maybe I'm saving lives by doing just this." 8 “Some teens listening to Craig's speech said it opened their eyes to the risky behavior related to texting while