Texting And Driving Cause Near Death Experiences

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Texting and driving are one of the main causes of near death or death experiences. Many teenagers die because of this.

From the source of edgarsynder.com, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of driving and texting , but 35% do it anyway. 11 teens die everyday from texting and driving . “21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cellphone” . A teen driver with one additional passenger doubles the risk of getting into a fatal accident. With more passengers they are 5x as likely.

I don’t support texting and driving whatsoever. I have had bad experiences being the passenger in a vehicle with a texting driver. I’ve never necessarily been in an accident but I’ve been in close to death experiences.

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