Teen Drivers Are Distracted By Teenagers

Teen drivers are more distracted than ever due to cellphones. Teenagers are always afraid of what they’re going to miss. They have to always see what’s going on in their social media world. They cannot simply hear a text message ding on their phone and leave their phone alone until they get to their destination.
Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied in the hours after school until way past bedtime. When they’re not doing their homework (and when they are) they’re online and on their phones, texting, sharing, trolling, scrolling, you name it. The issue is that teenagers don’t seem to understand that there is a time and place for their cellphone use. Cellphone use while driving is certainly not the time for that. Shockingly statistics show that 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their cellphones while driving. Out of those 660,000 drivers, 21% is teenage drivers. There is an app on the app store that has over 200,000 downloads. This app is Snapchat. Snapchat allows for you to take a picture or short video make adjustments to it and post it to your friends Snapchat news feed. The picture or video is there for 24 hours and gone. I have Snapchat and have noticed that a lot of my friends like to record their selves while driving and dancing to a certain song on the radio. During their video they’ll glance at …show more content…
The link to that existence is their cellphones. Families please set aside time very evening that is a no cellphone or other form of electronic time. Use this time to laugh and share about what has happened during your day. Make your children take a break from their cellular devices and see that their world doesn’t revolve around a little rectangular box. Although we’re not with our children all the times, we can certainly stress to them that it can wait. It’s not worth costing them their own lives or the possibility of costing someone else