Texting while driving happens everywhere without not caring that they are committing a crime as well as putting others lives at risk. While texting and driving you are putting your life and other people's lives at risk. Over half a million people attempt to text and drive every day! This leads to 1.6 million crashes every year, and over three hundred thousand injuries every year! One of four crashes are caused by texting and driving. The penalty is too soft, and should be evaluated and changed. If there is an important message the driver should pull off and then continue the conversation.
No text is not worth a death. An innumerable amount of people text and drive knowing the risks, but that does not stop them. Even now that there are laws in place people still text and drive. Even with the penalties of texting and driving extremely excruciating people that text and drive still overlook the consequences. With the amount of crashes, injuries, and casualties every year the number people texting and driving is not falling. A study in minnesota was conducted to calculate how many texting and driving citations were given in 2014, 1,224, 2015, 2,305, and in 2015 there was 3,082 citations handed out. This …show more content…
That is not a big enough penalty. The penalty should be big enough that people do not want to risk it, and one hundred dollars is not a big enough fine. I believe that the penalty for texting and driving should be the loss of the individuals licence for six months and a fine of five hundred dollars. For the second offence the individual should lose their licence for twelve months and a fine of one thousand dollars, and if the individual gets a third citation for texting and driving the individual should lose their licence for 24 months a fine of three thousand dollars and community service. I believe that if the penalty is enforced more with a more harsh penalty people will follow the law
No text is not worth a death. An innumerable amount of people text and drive knowing the risks, but that does not stop them. Even now that there are laws in place people still text and drive. Even with the penalties of texting and driving extremely excruciating people that text and drive still overlook the consequences. With the amount of crashes, injuries, and casualties every year the number people texting and driving is not falling. A study in minnesota was conducted to calculate how many texting and driving citations were given in 2014, 1,224, 2015, 2,305, and in 2015 there was 3,082 citations handed out. This …show more content…
That is not a big enough penalty. The penalty should be big enough that people do not want to risk it, and one hundred dollars is not a big enough fine. I believe that the penalty for texting and driving should be the loss of the individuals licence for six months and a fine of five hundred dollars. For the second offence the individual should lose their licence for twelve months and a fine of one thousand dollars, and if the individual gets a third citation for texting and driving the individual should lose their licence for 24 months a fine of three thousand dollars and community service. I believe that if the penalty is enforced more with a more harsh penalty people will follow the law