After years of debating, Florida along with thirty seven other states have all banned texting while driving. However, we still have an issue with using mobile devices on the road. What sets Florida apart from the other states is that it’s only a secondary offense, basically meaning that Florida drivers are only cited if they are pulled over for a primary offense such as not wearing a seat belt. What is more questionable of it all is the fact that the person will only be paying a thirty dollar fine
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Annotated Bibliography for Texting and Driving Jacqueline Baldwin Devry University Annotated Bibliography for Just about everyone has done it, that one quick text message to a friend or family member while you’re behind the wheel to let them know you’re running a little late. Do you know the risk of your one “quick” text message? You take your eyes off the road for a quick second and the moment you look up your life flashes before your very eyes. Was it worth it? According to Federal
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phone companies that someone is driving. Everyone talks about how they wanna stop texting and driving and the only thing they have done was have police officers give them a ticket or warning. Yeah that might scare some people but in the end if there's no cop around then they will just pull their phone out again. “ Do you wanna have your last text be hi or something no one's ready to send their last text out…”.I think that people should stop texting and driving because there’s been so many injuries
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located online, reveals the shocking statistics of texting behind the wheel: Texting while driving increases the risk of accident 23.2 times over unimpaired driving. Texting while driving results in longer response times than even drunken driving. While an unimpaired driver can respond quickly to changes in traffic and begin braking within half a second, a legally drunk driver needs four additional feet to begin braking—and a driver who’s texting needs 70. In the moments before a crash or near
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Texting And Driving USA Today- Study: Teens who text and drive take even more risks. By: Michelle Healy More than 4 in 10 teens admit to texting in driving, and those that do are more likely to engage in other risks while driving. If a teen texts while driving, chances are he or she also practices other dangerous motor vehicle habits, including failing to buckle up and driving after they have been drinking. A new federal analysis finds. Teens who texted while driving are
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Fairport Five, died in a head on collision with a tractor trailer, and texting is suspected to be the cause of the accident. “Cell phone records show a text message was sent from the phone belonging to the driver, Bailey Goodman, at 10:05:52. A reply was sent to her phone at 10:06:29. Thirty-eight seconds later, someone called 911 to report the accident that killed Bailey and her friends” (“Texting May”) What if she had not been texting? Could these five girls still be alive today? It is impossible to
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consequences of texting and driving. Can texting while driving leaded to consequences? There are many consequences of texting and driving. Many reasons explain why we should not text and derived at the same time. By texting, we are putting our life and life of others is danger. We can kill someone, make more people to texts, and face consequences. Many people today and in the past lost a life of a love’s one because of irresponsible driver who is additive to technology. The danger of driving is that we
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Distracted driving is a big problem in the United States, and people are more likely to get in an accident if they are distracted. Studies show that texting while driving impairs normal driving. In 1980 Candy Lightner was drunk driving on night and she killed a 13 year old girl, and she later said that the girl she killed was her daughter. Candy lightner also later said “ After the crash there is an impact.” People are more likely to get in an accident if they are distracted, but though scientists
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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
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disable in-car cellphone messaging in preventing deaths and accidents that are caused by texting and driving? 2) Working thesis: Although devices that disable in-car cellphone messaging can help curb texting and driving incidents, they are still not as effective in preventing accidents and deaths from texting and driving compared to the stricter implementation of rules and regulations that ban texting and driving. 3) Angle: Technology is imperfect in many ways and has many restrictions. It is also still
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