Arguement For Distracted Driving

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There were 3,154 people killed in a motor vehicle involving distracted drivers in 2013. Why would you want to add on to the killing? One of these killings could be one of your loved ones and their life could have been saved if the people around them on the road cared enough about their life and people around them. Every time you get behind a wheel of any vehicle you should have your full attention on the road and not somewhere else. I believe that the only way for people to get undistracted while driving is: by educating drivers and higher penalty for distractive driving. Distracted driving contributes to 16% of fatal crashes, which is estimated around 5, deaths a year. It takes 27 seconds to start to fully engage with the driving task.

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