What texting and driving has done and caused with teenagers and adults in america today? Texting, looking, dialing, and talking on your phone while driving has caused over million auto crashes nationwide. Most of those crashes are caused by young teens between the ages of 16 - 19. The cause of why adults and young teens getting and causing car crashes and why those distractions can injure or end someone 's life. The stactices of auto crashes in the U.S , death and injury rate of people caused by a driver that was texting while driving, and the distractions and preventions from having accident. In fact throughout the day approximately 660,000 people attempt to use a phone while behind the wheel of an automobile. We all know that smartphones help you stay in touch with friends, family, business, etc. But using or looking at it for just a second to check emails, text messages, and phone calls can cause a big safety risk for the driver and people around the driver. The National Safety Council (NSC) reports that 1.6 million people have car crashes mainly caused by the use of a cell phone each year. In spite of that, half million people have been injured and taken about 6,000 lives. Statistics says that texting while driving six times more likely to cause a car crash than driving while drunk. Texting while driving have a 400% increase of having eyes off of the road, so in any phone- related activity texting while driving is the most dangerous by far. According to AAA statistics, 94% of teens know the dangers of texting while driving , and 35% still attempt to text while driving. Statistics says that teen driver is four times more likely to get in or near an automobile accident while talking or texting while behind a wheel compared to an adult. If there is one passenger aboard it doubles the risk of having a fatal car accident. If that teen has two or more passengers on board with them it is five times more likely to have an automobile crashes just if the driver take their eyes off of the to check their phone in anyway. In 2013, statistics says that 10% of teens between the ages of 15 through 19 that have been in a serious accident says or was reported that they were distracted at the time of the crash. Lastly, in 2012, there was an 11% of kids under 20 who were distracted when the accident happened. Answering a text or phone call can take the driver’s attention from the road for more than five seconds.
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Traveling at 55mph speed that is the length of a football field and that can be a enough to get in an automobile accident. The National Safety Council (NSC) report that 1 out of 4 car accidents in the United States has happened by a driver that is texting and driving.
Each year nearly 330,000 people have been injured by an accident caused by people texting and driving. In 2013 alone, 3,154 people were killed because of distraction- related accidents. About 424,000 people were injured in the automobile accident because of a distracted driver. In 2012, about 421,000 people were hurt because of distracted drivers, and 3,328 people were killed because of texter or distracted driver. The National Safety Council says that when the police got on the scene nearly half (48%) teenagers and adults admitted to being on their phones or taking a call when they had caused the accident. It shows on a survey that 24% of drivers report that they are willing to make a phone call or text while driving. One of the 10 drivers surveyed that they sometimes text or send an email while they are driving. Overall the drivers that was surveyed says that 14% read emails or text messages while they are behind the wheel of an automobile. Statistics says that it is four times less when a pedestrian looks up to see what they are doing when they are crossing a crossroad. So it is an average of two seconds for a person to get hit when they aren 't paying attention to the signs or roads. In 2013, 4,735 pedestrians were killed because of
Traveling at 55mph speed that is the length of a football field and that can be a enough to get in an automobile accident. The National Safety Council (NSC) report that 1 out of 4 car accidents in the United States has happened by a driver that is texting and driving.
Each year nearly 330,000 people have been injured by an accident caused by people texting and driving. In 2013 alone, 3,154 people were killed because of distraction- related accidents. About 424,000 people were injured in the automobile accident because of a distracted driver. In 2012, about 421,000 people were hurt because of distracted drivers, and 3,328 people were killed because of texter or distracted driver. The National Safety Council says that when the police got on the scene nearly half (48%) teenagers and adults admitted to being on their phones or taking a call when they had caused the accident. It shows on a survey that 24% of drivers report that they are willing to make a phone call or text while driving. One of the 10 drivers surveyed that they sometimes text or send an email while they are driving. Overall the drivers that was surveyed says that 14% read emails or text messages while they are behind the wheel of an automobile. Statistics says that it is four times less when a pedestrian looks up to see what they are doing when they are crossing a crossroad. So it is an average of two seconds for a person to get hit when they aren 't paying attention to the signs or roads. In 2013, 4,735 pedestrians were killed because of