Your friend just sent you a pic of there cat on the roof, while your typing a comment, BOOM! You got hit by a car and broke both your legs and are sprawled out on the street that you wandered in not knowingly. Distracted walking has become a serious and dangerous problem in the United States. Some people think the solution is to make it illegal. Others think there shouldn’t be a law on it. What I think about this is to add a law on texting while walking on the street or sidewalk, to make it safer to walk on the streets.
There has been 2,594 pedestrian deaths of texting and walking, in just California alone. This and another fact is that more than 5,987 pedestrians died in 2016 in the US alone. The highest since the invention and popularity