Hitting Home
“Scotty is in the hospital. Jump in the car and grab your brother. See you in five”. Well that was quite devastating when hearing those words spill out of my mother’s mouth at about the age of 16. It was a matter of 20 minutes that we had arrived at the hospital to see my entire family huddled around a trifling, little white hospital bed big enough for just his body and no wiggle room. I pushed my way to the front of the 20 people standing in the hospital room to see before my eyes what could have been mistaken as a corpse. There lies Scotty in the bed with nothing but a clean white sheet lying over top of him. With the new advances, texting and driving has managed to become part of the norm. The human race is so focused on the fact texting and driving is such a terrible addition to our society but we often do not go about ways of fixing this appalling trend. According to Maria Allard, texting and driving has affected many lives. She states, “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off of the road while texting, if …show more content…
A ticket for this offense can range from 20 dollars all the way up to roughly 500 dollars. Alaska does not think that will cut it; instead they will slap you with 10,000-dollar fine and one year in prison (Sherin 2). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that if you participate in texting and driving you are three times more likely to be in an automobile accident. Why do people still text and drive, if we know it is wrong? This is the question many people ask and are often answered with an excuse that will never overpower the fact that death has a potential occurrence in this situation. A text message is not worth your own life or the life of anyone else. People may say, “It will not happen to me” or “I have it under control.” If it were under control, we would not have several deaths over this little
“Scotty is in the hospital. Jump in the car and grab your brother. See you in five”. Well that was quite devastating when hearing those words spill out of my mother’s mouth at about the age of 16. It was a matter of 20 minutes that we had arrived at the hospital to see my entire family huddled around a trifling, little white hospital bed big enough for just his body and no wiggle room. I pushed my way to the front of the 20 people standing in the hospital room to see before my eyes what could have been mistaken as a corpse. There lies Scotty in the bed with nothing but a clean white sheet lying over top of him. With the new advances, texting and driving has managed to become part of the norm. The human race is so focused on the fact texting and driving is such a terrible addition to our society but we often do not go about ways of fixing this appalling trend. According to Maria Allard, texting and driving has affected many lives. She states, “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off of the road while texting, if …show more content…
A ticket for this offense can range from 20 dollars all the way up to roughly 500 dollars. Alaska does not think that will cut it; instead they will slap you with 10,000-dollar fine and one year in prison (Sherin 2). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that if you participate in texting and driving you are three times more likely to be in an automobile accident. Why do people still text and drive, if we know it is wrong? This is the question many people ask and are often answered with an excuse that will never overpower the fact that death has a potential occurrence in this situation. A text message is not worth your own life or the life of anyone else. People may say, “It will not happen to me” or “I have it under control.” If it were under control, we would not have several deaths over this little