Banning cell phones while driving should be mandatory nationwide; cell phones are a major cause of distracted drivers and using them while driving has killed more teens in recent years than drunk driving.
Banning cell phones nationwide is necessary, The National Safety Council announced today that in the United States alone, there is an estimated 28% of all traffic crashes have cited cell phone use as the cause that means least 1.6 million crashes each year -- are caused by drivers using cell phones and/or texting, (PR Newswire, 2016).
Driving while using a cell phone is not only dangerous to the driver, but also to passengers and other innocent bystanders. It is irresponsible behavior that must be stopped for the safety of all of us. Cell
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Texting and driving kills more teens than drunk driving, “Cohen Children’s Medical Center found that texting and driving was responsible for more than 3,000 fatalities among teenagers last year, while drinking and driving claimed the lives of 2,700 teens,” (Chant, 2013), this fact alone should cause for a nationwide movement to ban cell phones while driving. A Virginia Tech study has determined that texting while driving increases your risk of an accident to 23 times more likely than if you are not (safety.trw.com, 2013).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website explains that there are three types of distracted driving: visual, manual, and cognitive. Visual distractions are anything that distracts the driver from looking at the road, manual distractions are anything that causes the driver to take his or her hands off the wheel, and cognitive distractions are anything that makes the driver concentrate on anything besides driving, (cdc.gov, 2015). Cell phone use covers all three of these types of distracted driving, for the safety of the driver, the passengers and others on the