Name: Anna Sigley
From: Warren, Ohio
Votes: 0
Today we face a very
real danger behind the wheel one that I have experienced personally.
Texting while driving. Many people say it doesn’t hurt anything but
those people are wrong. My Junior year my ex-boyfriend and I were
going to school and as we were driving down the highway in his 2005
Honda when he picked up his phone to text his friend. He took his
eyes off the road for not even a second and we hit the car in front
of us that was stopping for a red light. The impact was harsh and eat
wrecking. My ears rang as the airbag hit my face jerking forward
feeling the harsh snag of the seatbelt across my chest. My head
slammed back into the rest and I look at him. He sat limp in his seat
resting against the airbag out cold. His head was covered in blood,he
was still gripping the root cause of the crash, his phone no
splattered in his crisium blood. He was out cold.
I tried to look at
the car that we ran into and all I could see was the hood of car
crumbled up towards us blocking my view. The driver of the car was
knocking on my window trying to ask me something. I couldn’t hear
him with the ringing in my ears. I opened the door and my head
screamed at me as I stood. Flashing blue and red lights were moving
closer in the distance. A began to hear sounds again. First was the
screams of a newborn Next the sirens of the police in the wind then
i could hear what the Driver was saying. He was asking me if I was
alright. I nodded my head and then went to my boyfriend. I shook him
he didn’t wake up until the paramedics arrived shortly after my
efforts. I didn’t know what to think my mind was all over the
place. “All this was caused by one simple action?” I thought.
They asked me what happened and I couldn’t say a work. I was in shock
and I couldn’t think. The Police arrived and they took one look at my
boyfriend and knew exactly what happened. I never thought that this
would happened because everyone just told me stories that I thought
were made up. Here to find out it is a very real danger. That day I
vowed that this would never happen to me again.
The accident
changed the way I felt about driving and texting or even using the
phone in the car when I was riding passenger. I was became afraid of
what would happen if I even drove and had to seek out help to
overcome the phobia. It took a long time but I finally received my
license and now i make sure that my phone is in my bag and in the
back seat. I don’t reach for it for any reason not even at a stop
light.
