Any car accident is a terrible occurrence, but even worse is an accident that could have been avoided. In a March 2010 article in USA Today,Larry Copeland wrote“Word to youth: Texting, Driving Don’t Mix”, in which he tells the horrific story of the day Mariah West died while driving and texting on her way to a friend’s baseball game. Copeland shares the heartfelt work of Mariah’s mother as she endlessly shares the dangers of driving and texting with teens and their parents through various means such as television, radio and the internet. Larry Copeland talks in his article of hearing through focus groups on Facebook from many teenagers who admit to texting while driving that believe they have figured out how to text and drive “safely” or “can put the phone on the top of the steering wheel and do it”. Copeland mentions AT&T’s campaign theme “Not worth dying for” which takes on groups of texters and asks them to pull out their cell phones and look at their last incoming text and then ask the audience if that text would be worth dying for. I believe all states in the U.S should completely ban texting while driving because texting distracts the driver, drivers get caught up in their emotions while texting, texting cause slower reaction time and insurance cost rise. One major effect of drivers texting is the mere distraction of it. Drivers receiving text may feel that the text is urgent and a response is needed so they start the reply process which takes their eyes and hands off the road for seconds at a time. I would compare this to someone blindfolding a driver which would be catastrophic. Some drivers even use both hands while they text which leads to an unmanned steering wheel. Larry Copeland’s article spoke about high school seniors from Rogers,Arkansas stating that they had seen Mariah West’s car swerving and knew she was on her cell phone texting.Texting has