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Overall people who text 20% of people get in a crash and get severely injured or die.

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Cell Phone Use and Texting Account for Many Traffic Fatalities

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Distracted Driving, edited by Stefan Kiesbye, Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, http%3A%2F%2Flink.galegroup.com%2Fapps%2Fdoc%2FEJ3010795207%2FOVIC%3Fu%3Dpl2683%26sid%3DOVIC%26xid%3D42807a61. Accessed 27 Feb. 2019. Originally published as "One in Six Highway Deaths Tied to Distracted Driving," ABCNews.com, 20 Sept. 2010.

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In the recent years half way through 2017 and 2018 about 40,000 people lost their life because of distracted driving.

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37,461 lives were lost on U.S. roads in 2016, an increase of 5.6% from 2015 (data not yet available for 2017) NHTSA
Distracted Driving:

10% of fatal crashes and 15% of injury crashes in 2015 were distraction-affected. NHTSA.

Distracted driving crashes are under-reported and the NSC estimates that cell phone use alone accounted for 27% of 2015 car crashes. NSC

In 2015, there were 3,477 people killed and an estimated additional 391,000 injured in crashes involving distracted drivers. NHTSA

The fatal crash rate for teens is 3 times greater than for drivers age 20 and over (IIHS)

Driver distraction is responsible for more than 58% of teen crashes. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

Three types of distractions:

Traffic safety experts classify distractions into three main types: M anual, Visual and Cognitive.

Manual distractions are those where you move your hands from the wheel.

Visual distractions are those where you focus your eyes away from the road.

A cognitive distraction is when you're mind wanders away from the task of driving.

Texting involves all three types of distraction.
Cell Phone Use:

People are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cell phone as they are when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.08%. University of Utah

Cell phone users are 5.36 times more likely to get into an accident than undistracted drivers. University of Utah

Text messaging increases the risk of crash or near-crash by 23 times. Virginia Technical Transportation Institute, USDOT

Sending or reading a text message takes your eyes off the road for about 5 seconds, long enough to cover a football field while driving at 55 mph NHTSA

Drivers are not taking this seriously enough:

Over 84% of drivers recognize the danger from cell phone distractions and find it "unacceptable" that drivers text or send email while driving. Nevertheless, 36% of these same people admit to having read or sent a text message or e-mail while driving in the previous month. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

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Learn the Facts About Distracted Driving

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37,461 lives were lost on U.S. roads in 2016, an increase of 5.6% from 2015 (data not yet available for 2017) NHTSA Distracted Driving: 10% of fatal crashes and 15% of injury crashes in 2015 were distraction-affected. NHTSA. Distracted driving crashes are under-reported and the NSC estimates that cell phone use alone accounted for 27% of 2015 car crashes.

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A growing number of accidents are happening on highway roads and highways are becoming unsafe for people to drive on them.

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Cell Phone Use While Driving Should Be Banned

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New York demonstrated leadership when it became the first state to ban handheld cell phone use, and this state also prohibits drivers from texting. The NTSB believes a significant number of lives can be saved and injuries avoided if New York expands its law to include all nonemergency use of all PEDs.

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While looking down to text it takes your eye off the road and makes you unconsecrated then when you look up it make you swerve off road.

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Law enforcement agencies are experimenting with new technologies designed to detect distracted driving. For example, in 2017, New York's state legislature considered the introduction of a device informally known as the Textalyzer, which would allow police officers to scan the mobile phones of drivers pulled over at roadsides to determine if they had been using their devices behind the wheel.

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Texting and Driving is fine if you had experience before and may help you out if a family member is in help.

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Cell Phone Use While Driving May Not Always Pose a Danger

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Cell Phones and Driving, edited by Stefan Kiesbye, Greenhaven Press, 2011. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, http%3A%2F%2Flink.galegroup.com%2Fapps%2Fdoc%2FEJ3010743204%2FOVIC%3Fu%3Dpl2683%26sid%3DOVIC%26xid%3D36b4faca. Accessed 7 Mar. 2019. Originally published as "Our View on Traffic Safety: Ban Cellphoning While Driving? Not So Fast," USA Today, 29 July 2009.

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This is the aftermath from texting and driving the car is totaled and the person in the inside texting sadly did not make it out alive.

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Here is family crossing the road when they are supposed to but the girl driving was to busy texting her boyfriend and missed the red light.

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This man is going to work and is looking down at his phone and when he looked up he realizes he is going into a car full spe.

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This is kid playing basketball while a car is driving and texting right at him and doesn't have time to react and will get severely injured or die.

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This is a young beautiful teen and while going to her friends she was texting her other friend. Out of no where she went in a ditch on the highway flipped the car and died. It was the last time her parents go to talk to her. You don't want that to happen to anyone you know.

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Texting and Driving | True Stories | Sydnee's Story

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This man was coming home from work and was looking down texting and never even realized their was a kid on a bike crossing the road. and now feels really bad for himself

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A story of why you shouldn't text while driving. Everyone is crying and both cars are totaled just because on girl decided to text and didn't pull over first.