Dangers from Texting while Driving

Texting while driving should be illegal.  Without texting and driving, there will be far less accidents overall in today’s society even with all the crazy drivers out there already.  Texting and driving causes people to lose focus when driving, become a worse driver, and won’t care about the passenger’s safety or your one.

Drivers won’t be paying as much attention to their phones, if texting was illegal. People are more drawn to technology today and what’s going on in the world, than their own safety while being behind the wheel of a vehicle. Truck drivers’ who were texting, were 23 times more at risk of a crash than non- distracted driving.

 

People will become worse drivers from driving and texting.  They won’t be watching the road and will have more traffic violations. Drivers will be swerving without thinking about it and can end up slamming into the side of someone on a multi lane street.   Text messaging and using ipods caused drivers to leave there lanes 10% more often.

The average human being will tell you that texting and driving has no harm to anyone who is doing it right.  However, you will forget about the road and end up almost crashing or actually getting into an accident.  It doesn’t matter how much less you focus cause it only takes one slip up to kill someone.  “Texting took a driver’s focus away from the road for an avg. of 4.6 sec. – enough time… to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph.”