Texting and driving is just a stupid thing to do.
Whenever someone does something just because your friend
does it, the famous question, if your friend told you to jump off a bridge,
would you, gets asked. Well the same goes now; if you’re friend is texting
while he/she is driving, does that mean you should, too? The ideal answer is,
no, of course not. The realistic one, however, is don’t worry, I’m a good
driver, I can handle doing both at once. But in truth, that’s just not the
case. In fact, about 13% of car accidents where teenagers are involved resulted
from drivers using their cell phones while driving.
The dangers are so obvious, yet most teens don’t stop to
think about them. They think they’re invincible; that nothing can happen to
them. But they couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, research shows that over 3,000
teens are killed every year from texting and driving. Kars for Kids, a national car
donation charity, doesn’t take these numbers lightly. As the organizations name
shows, both cars and kids are dear to their heart and to lose so many,
annually, because you just couldn’t wait to send that one text message, breaks
their heart. And recently, they rolled out their own initiative to stop teens
from texting and driving. Hopefully one day soon, teens will stop thinking, it
can’t happen to me, and the world will be 3,000 smiles brighter.
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