How many texts are sent in a day? Statistics show that “People worldwide will send 8.3 trillion text messages in just this year alone. That’s almost 23 billion messages per day” (Onereach). Texting is currently the most common form of communication. In fact, most people are so familiar with texting that we have never put proper bounds as to when and where it is appropriate. This lack of bounds has created a society where texting and driving, while frowned upon, is merely shrugged off. Regretfully, this has led to several fatal car accidents involving distracted and innocent, unsuspecting drivers. Because the consequences of texting and driving can be so great to the innocents involved in the accidents, I believe the consequences should be just as harsh to the texter. Driving while texting needs …show more content…
The solution to the problem is really simple, yet it will take extreme measures to achieve the designated goal. Any driver caught texting and driving will have their license suspended for a set period of time for first time offenders and more consequentially revoked for multiple time offenders. I’m sure many people are asking. “Is it really necessary to go to such measures?” Yes. With a law such as this it will greatly dissuade people from texting while driving, because of the drastic measures that will be taken against them if they do not follow the law. Granted there are still going to be a segment of the population that will not follow the safety precautions, and sadly for the foreseeable future there will not be a one-hundred percent effective solution. Still, there are going to be people who oppose and say that they only text at red lights, or if there was an emergency, and of course they may be an extenuating circumstance which may hold validity to the driver’s actions, that would fall to the law-enforcement officer to make the call on that circumstance. Never the less texting while driving still poses a