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Shelby McGarry
Mrs. Petty
ENG091
December 9, 2014
Rough Draft: Texting while driving
Texting and driving is very dangerous, in a matter of seconds looking down to
read a message sent from a love one or a friend can take your life. So many people
nowadays text and drive with carelessness. It has become a day-to-day routine and
it must stop because lives are being lost from having the world at your fingertips.
Overall, Texting and driving can be a big distraction, can cause accidents, and even
take lives.
Texting is a huge distraction while driving From changing the music on Pandora
to texting back a friend, looking down at your phone for a few seconds can take
away your life forever. Number one rule when driving never take your eyes off the
road, because when you do for a couple of seconds it can end your life. As Mr.
Borgard states in his article, Cell Phone Use is a Danger to Others is that In our
society, where egotism and greed are valued, people only think about themselves
and their own safety and tend to forget that they have a responsibility to keep
others safe as well.
More car accidents nowadays is cause by drivers that were texting and/or
distracted by their phones rather then drunk drivers. Car accidents cannot only total
your car, but it can also endanger other people around you. In addition nowadays
phone companies provided the precise time when a call was placed (dialing task)

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or received (answering task), the length of time on the phone (conversing task), and
the time at which the phone call was completed (hanging up task) as it states in Cell
Phone Use and Crash Risk.
From young to old many people have been killed because of distracted
drivers on their phones instead of paying attention to the road. In addition, it
doesnt matter how experienced you are you should never pick up your phone while
driving because you are risking you life.
All in all, texting and driving can be very dangerous. Texting while driving
can be very distracting, it can cause you to look away from the road. Sometimes if it
is a argument you can be to involved with it and it can be distracting when driving
and can cause you to create road rage.

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Work Cited
Borgard, Mark. "Cell Phone Use Is a Danger to Others." Cell Phones and Driving. Ed.
Stefan Kiesbye. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. At Issue. Rpt. from "Your
Cell Phone Use Is Driving Me Crazy." Kingman Daily Miner 3 Jan. 2010.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 9 Dec. 2014.
Young, Richard. Cell Phone Use and Crash Risk. Epidemiology, Vol. 23, No. 4 \
(July 2012), pp. 647-650