Texting And Driving Persuasive Essay

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    A fast moving transportation moving on the road with a person in the driver’s seat. Driving on road is allowed for everyone who passed the road knowledge and vision tests, most importantly, over the age of sixteen. Nowadays, many teens use cell phone while driving and caused many other drivers or passangers in harm. Texting while driving causes people in death and injuries, not only to the drivers themself, but also to the other road users and passangers. Nowadays, cell phone plays an important

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    who have driver’s licenses think that trying to text while driving is too dangerous to be legal according to a new national survey released this afternoon. The survey showed that 86 percent of U.S drivers believe that handheld texting while driving is very dangerous and 93 percent support a ban on texting while driving anywhere in the country. At the same time, only 42 percent of those who took the survey believe drivers would stop texting behind the wheel if the practice was made illegal. However

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    Texting while driving is becoming now a controversial issue. The fact that people send or read messages while they are on the road is causing accidents and problems for both, the drivers and the people around them. Despite all the laws that have been created just the minority is listening and paying attention to this. In my opinion, people need more education concerning all this. They need to realize once and for all that these recently laws are not here without a purpose. There are many methods

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    English 1302 Stephanie Derisi. 9 May 2014. Cell Phones and Driving During the past few years, consumers, politician, academics, and interest groups have expressed growing concern about the safety of using cell phones in cars and trucks. Cell phone usage while driving has become a growing threat to students and parents alike as the number of accidents in our community continues to grow. Some people say the use of cell phones while driving is not the only distraction to drivers but holding conversion

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    crashes are caused by texting and driving. Texting and driving is also the leading cause of crashes in the United States and is not slowing down anytime soon if laws aren't instated. Teens make up a large percentage of texting and driving. Texting and driving should be illegal in every state to protect everyone, stop crashes, and to save teens. Making texting and driving illegal would keep everyone safe.“After declining from 1999 to 2005, fatalities from distracted driving increased 28% after 2005

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    The consequences of using a phone while driving Use of cell phones while driving should be banned in all the places as it causes a lot of distraction, also it can cause some harm to the driver and also the persons or passengers near the driver and this can consequently lead to accidents. These cases are mostly prevalent on the young people. In the most instances, cell phone use while driving has been proven my many researchers as a very dangerous thing to partake (Jane et al 2001). In the recent

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    yours away while driving! Texting and driving has been a problem ever since smart phones have come out. There are around 660,000 people daily who use cell phones while driving, according to the FCC. It is so common that almost everyone knows someone who has text and drove in the past or currently does it frequently. One reason why texting and driving at Columbia is an issue is because it is a law. “Texting, as that term is defined in subsection (1) of this section, while driving a moving motor vehicle

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    Recently the state of Oregon imposed a new law on the usage of cellular devices whilst driving vehicles. Now if cameras catch people touching their electronic devices whilst driving, then they can receive up to a $500 fine. The law was set to try and prevent car accidents where drivers are distracted using their electronic devices. Because of modern technology people have been using their mobile devices more so distracted drivers was becoming an increasing problem. People sometimes drive like drunk

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    Driving can be such a great experience for all of us. Especially when we are teenager because we are beyond excited to be legal to drive. However, many are at fault to be illegal drivers meaning no driver license to handle a motor vehicle. There are many other bad habits that drivers experience such as texting and driving, drunk driving and or not checking blind spot. Ignoring these bad habits to driving safe can be the cause of fatal accidents, hit and runs and minor accidents that occurs in the

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    Texting while driving has always been a safety hazard. Having to look away from the road for even a second could lead to disaster, and your need to answer the phone could put you and everyone in the car in danger. When you make a decision to let yourself be distracted on the road, you are not only putting yourself in danger, but you are putting everyone in danger, even if the distraction is hands-free. Hands free texting is still a distraction, as shown by personal experiences and case studies.

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