The Dangers of Texting & Driving

Is texting and driving dangerous? According to an article, using your cell phone while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year, and over 390,000 injuries are caused by texting and driving. Texting while driving is more likely to cause an accident than drunk driving due to the point that you’re staring at a bright light and not pay attention to the road. Texting and driving can also be called distracted driving.

Distracted driving isn’t merely texting or talking on the phone while driving but also using a navigation system, eating while driving, and other things. Teens tend to use their phones while driving and which is causing them to crash. We need to make more robust laws to prohibit texting and driving to stop the states’ deaths and hits. But to do this, the people also have to put an effort not to use the phone while driving to save their lives and others.

The leading cause of texting while driving is technology. For example, when smartphones came out, it was easy for people to interact with their phones, such as talking, taking pictures, and many other things. Back when cell phones didn’t have big and bright screens, it was harder for cell phones to have significant and bright screens; it was harder for people to send messages. This needs to change because people are putting their lives and other lives in danger using their phones. We can change some ways by not paying attention to our phone or going on the side of the road to talk if we have to answer. Another way is to put your phone on “Do Not Disturb” mode so that you won’t get any texts or calls. The stakeholders of texting and driving are adolescents between 18 to 24; they are the ones that usually don’t pay attention to the roads and don’t care what might be the consequences of making those decisions. We primarily help them show them the consequences of not paying attention to the road by taking them to see someone who might have been in a bad accident by texting and driving. We can also put more warnings and show people what could happen to them. Some teens don’t care about the signs, and the only way they could learn is if they end up in an accident.