Impacts
The general impacts of texting and driving include:
- Accidents
- Death
- Bad Influences
- Distractions
- Depression
- Injuries
Because people have their eyes taken off the road, they are distracted, and then crash into surrounding objects, which can be other cars, pedestrians, trees, poles, animals, buildings, or ditches. These accidents can be fatal and cause innocent lives to be lost. When one texts and drives with other people in the car, it is a bad influence because if someone sees another person texting and driving, they may start doing it as well. Texting and driving is not only a distraction to the road, it is a distraction of one's whole mindset of their responsibilities and their safety. Because lives are lost due to this issue, it may cause depression because a very important person to a family is gone, or the person who could have caused the a death from texting and driving could feel bad knowing that they caused a live lost. From all the accidents and distractions, injuries occur that can affect one's life for a long time.
- Accidents
- Death
- Bad Influences
- Distractions
- Depression
- Injuries
Because people have their eyes taken off the road, they are distracted, and then crash into surrounding objects, which can be other cars, pedestrians, trees, poles, animals, buildings, or ditches. These accidents can be fatal and cause innocent lives to be lost. When one texts and drives with other people in the car, it is a bad influence because if someone sees another person texting and driving, they may start doing it as well. Texting and driving is not only a distraction to the road, it is a distraction of one's whole mindset of their responsibilities and their safety. Because lives are lost due to this issue, it may cause depression because a very important person to a family is gone, or the person who could have caused the a death from texting and driving could feel bad knowing that they caused a live lost. From all the accidents and distractions, injuries occur that can affect one's life for a long time.
Statistics
Below are some statistics on the impacts of texting and driving.
- When one texts and drives, at least 5 seconds are taken away off the road.
- Texting and driving increases the likelihood of a crash because it makes it 23 times more likely to become in an accident.
- 13% of people involved in a car accident from the ages of 18-20 said they texted and drove during the collision.
- Out of the 82% of Americans who have a cell phone and are 16-17 years old, 34% of them have texted or drove before.
- 77% of young adults believe strongly they can safely text and drive.
- Many young adult drivers, in fact, think it is easy to text and drive, particularly 55% of these young drivers.
- 10% of the time is spent of when a person texts and drives is outside of the lane.
- Young drivers have seen their parents text and drive, and this is 15% of them.
- From the ages of 12-17, 48% of these children have been inside of a car with a person texting and driving.
From
http://www.textinganddrivingsafety.com/texting-and-driving-stats/, below is a picture of statistics included on the website.
- When one texts and drives, at least 5 seconds are taken away off the road.
- Texting and driving increases the likelihood of a crash because it makes it 23 times more likely to become in an accident.
- 13% of people involved in a car accident from the ages of 18-20 said they texted and drove during the collision.
- Out of the 82% of Americans who have a cell phone and are 16-17 years old, 34% of them have texted or drove before.
- 77% of young adults believe strongly they can safely text and drive.
- Many young adult drivers, in fact, think it is easy to text and drive, particularly 55% of these young drivers.
- 10% of the time is spent of when a person texts and drives is outside of the lane.
- Young drivers have seen their parents text and drive, and this is 15% of them.
- From the ages of 12-17, 48% of these children have been inside of a car with a person texting and driving.
From
http://www.textinganddrivingsafety.com/texting-and-driving-stats/, below is a picture of statistics included on the website.