Taking your eyes off the road for two seconds to respond to a text from your girlfriend doesn’t seem like that big of a deal right? Taking your hands off the wheel to tell your buddies that you’re on the way to the party isn’t dangerous, or is it? Well according to the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory, “texting while driving impairs driving skills more than being drunk or high”. What people don’t realize is that they text while they drive so nonchalantly, they don’t even think twice about the consequences of their actions and the danger that they are putting themselves and the people around them in. At least if someone was high, or had a little too much to drink, they might find themselves calling someone for a ride home, or just staying the night at that house, considering the dangers of being behind the wheel. An act of texting while driving is even more dangerous than being high, or drunk, yet people still do it.
Texting while driving cannot only affect you, but can also affect the people around you. Accidents occur daily just because a drivers pocket vibrates, and the curiosity of who is texting or what it says leaves a driver pulling their phone from their jeans, taking their eyes off the road, leading people in car wrecks and occasionally deadly accidents. Texting may cause you to rear end someone at a stop sign, totaling your vehicle and the car in front of you. This may cause insurance to rise, expensive payments, and maybe even the loss of your license. Some people don’t get that lucky though, sometimes people are left injured physically or mentally. You could be left sitting in a wheel chair for the rest of your life, being spoon fed yogurt, not being able to even go to the bathroom by yourself. Even if you walk away unharmed, living with the mental picture of seeing a dead body bagged, all because you couldn’t wait till you got home to look at your phone could leave you emotionally scarred for the rest of your life. Texting is no longer a “young driver” thing. Unfortunately, as the technology becomes more available and more common, more and more drivers, young and old will be texting while driving. Until a drastic measure is made it is safe to say that texting and the resulting fatalities will be with us for a while.
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