A Lost Soul and A Wrecked Life

A Lost Soul and A Wrecked Life

Heart pounding against the bitter shaved pavement as sounds spiral through the whistle of the wind. Colorful lights dance around the dreary atmosphere and brighten the corrupt night. Thoughts invade the disoriented driver who is flailed out on the asphalt while images of the wreck consume the person’s headspace and begin tiptoeing to the long-term memory section of the brain. Furthermore, rage brings about self-hatred, guilt, and a lingering pessimistic perspective to overshadow the once enthusiastic person. Not only has this distracted driver damaged their own life but he/she has mutilated the other individual and brought forth suffering upon the family. Texting while driving is dangerous; however, mankind does not understand the effects this act causes on its victims, people are to selfish to stop after knowing the facts, but in order to demonstrate its severity citizens are taking a stand.

Most of mankind does not understand the severity texting while driving causes, so to put it in perspective, (according to USAToday) eleven people each day are killed due to a distracted driver focusing their attention on a mobile device. Furthermore, studies have shown that over eighty percent of teens text while they drive, and over ninety percent of people over the age of fifty participate in this uncanny behavior. Statistically speaking, the chance for a person to be involved in a wreck flourishes by twenty-three percent when texting and driving. One example that resonates with most people is that the average text takes four point six seconds to look down type a letter and look up. If a person were to be driving at fifty-five miles per hour and take four point six seconds to text, they would have traveled the length of a football field and only have typed one letter. Texting one letter while driving may seem like a quick and harmless action but remember, one touchdown in football is the difference in a State Championship and being runner up and typing one letter could be the difference in a life sentenced with guilt or a life filled with joy due to avoidance of a vehicular accident.

Distraction due to a mobile device is skyrocketing each year. Mobile devices serge mankind with sense of urgency and power that distracts people from being cautious and concerned for the safety of other individuals. Furthermore, our devices control human actions because we are enslaved to checking the devices wellbeing with every “ding” it cries, including while we drive. Many people know the dangers that are involved with texting and driving; yet, they continue to participate in the act. People have deemed their work as top priority over safety for not only themselves but other people as well. If individuals would take a stand themselves to not text and drive, the highway would be a safer environment and less vehicular accidents would occur.

For people who are unaware of the negative effects texting while driving creates there are conferences held each year to inform students of the dangers. Social media and campaigns are expanding around the country to stop the unnecessary deaths caused by texting and driving. Oklahoma banned texting and driving after the two thousand fifteen vehicular fatality that involved the detrimental loss of Trooper Nicholas Dees and Trooper Keith Burch due to a distracted driver on their mobile device. The Trooper Nicholas Dees and Trooper Keith Burch Act states that any person caught texting and driving or any teen making a phone call or texting will be fined one hundred dollars. In honor of the two fallen officers, conferences are held yearly to inform citizens about the horrendous peril that one small text creates.

Texting while driving causes families and friends to live through agony, it causes people to feel invincible after safely completing their first text, and texting while driving is becoming a bigger ordeal due to its advertisement. As a result of texting and driving, anytime a person picks up their phone to text they are not just texting, they are devaluing the lives of people and relishing value to the unessential and impassive phone. Mankind should stand together and save one life at a time by saying no texting and driving.

Driver’s education is important because it informs students of different scenarios that can occur while on the road. Furthermore, many teens do not understand the dangers of driving because they grow up watching their parent’s bad habits and proclaim the mistakes as acceptable. During Driver’s education I believe it is important to show crash videos and peoples whose lives were changed due to illegal actions of any kind while driving. I have personally never experienced being amid a car accident; however, my life is encompassed with car accidents because my dad reconstructs vehicles that are involved in vehicular manslaughter. The lives I see impacted comes in many forms and all with different scenarios attached. The worst part is telling a family member of the deceased their loved one will never walk the planet again. I think that until people hear and see for themselves the difference a car accident can cause within a person’s life, then maybe there could be change but it would only be a slim chance. One way to be a safer driver is to be sober, no electronic device, and the music should be at a normal and appropriate volume.