Is replying to a text message worth totaling your car or taking your life, or even the lives of others? When people text and drive, are they focused more on their devices or the road? Is the value of a cell phone more important than the life of a human? Past studies have shown that about twenty- three percent of car accidents have been involved with the use of cellular devices (Texting and Driving, Here Are the Facts). Although many states do not allow the use of cellular devices while driving, I believe every state should prohibit the use of cell phones while operating a motor vehicle.
Some people have been involved in fatal car accidents caused by a texting driver. People between the ages of sixteen and nineteen have been in a fatal car accident
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After surveying fifty people in my residential dorm, the results came out to thirty-nine people saying texting while driving should be banned and eleven people said it didn’t matter to them (Clark). Distracted driving is very dangerous and more people need to become aware of it. Carlee Bollig has to face charges because she made a bad choice by texting while driving and harmed innocent people. Everyone needs to take that story and put it into perspective as if it were them behind the wheel. When a person is texting they aren’t looking at the road as well as staying focused on the road. “80% of crashes, and 65% of near crashes, involved some form of driver inattention within 3 seconds of the incident” (Texting and Driving, here are the Facts). Every driver on the road shouldn’t have to worry about a careless driver causing their life danger because they aren’t paying attention to the road. “In a new survey, 98 percent of motorists who own cellphones and text regularly said they were aware of the dangers, yet three-quarters of them admitted to texting while driving, despite laws against it in some states” (People Text and Drive). If every state took the action to ban texting while driving, there would be less accidents caused from distracted