Any one of your family members could be a victim of distracted driving. People are being victims of distracted driving, and one reason is using cell phones while driving. States should ban the use of using cell phones while driving.
Texting while driving is a distraction for drivers and should be should not be used on the road.Evidence: “The photo, published Wednesday in The Greeley Tribune, shows Heit was responding to a friend by typing "Sounds good my man, seeya soon" followed by a few letters before crashing.” Heit was responding to a friend and got distracted, and got into a car crash. If he was not on his cell phone he would not have been distracted. Distracted driving can happen, with this case was a cell phone. Luckily no one else …show more content…
“A much more comprehensive 2001 University of North Carolina study (PDF) found that cell-phone use was responsible for only 1.5 percent of distracted driving accidents ”Now 1.5 percent may not seem a lot, but in reality it is. Now take 2 million people which was the number of accidents distracted driving causes that year. now divide that by 1.5. Now subtract that from 2 million. That is about 700,000 people who die from cell phones in only North Carolina. Now the population is growing, which means it's higher now. Let's take the United States population in general. That population is 282 million. That is 141 times greater than North Carolina's population. The number of distracted driving in the United States during the 2000’s where about 6,000,000 people. You take the united states distracted driving accidents and divide it by 1.5. that's 4 million. now take the 6,000,000 and subtract the 4,000,000. That's 2 million. 1.5 percent is 2 million. What is one of your family members were part of that 2 million, but distracted driving was not banned. That 1.5 percent/ 2 million are gone. Now the population is even higher in 2015. People drive more, more accidents, and more people using cell phones, which means more cell phone users while driving. That has to be way more than what it was
Texting while driving is a distraction for drivers and should be should not be used on the road.Evidence: “The photo, published Wednesday in The Greeley Tribune, shows Heit was responding to a friend by typing "Sounds good my man, seeya soon" followed by a few letters before crashing.” Heit was responding to a friend and got distracted, and got into a car crash. If he was not on his cell phone he would not have been distracted. Distracted driving can happen, with this case was a cell phone. Luckily no one else …show more content…
“A much more comprehensive 2001 University of North Carolina study (PDF) found that cell-phone use was responsible for only 1.5 percent of distracted driving accidents ”Now 1.5 percent may not seem a lot, but in reality it is. Now take 2 million people which was the number of accidents distracted driving causes that year. now divide that by 1.5. Now subtract that from 2 million. That is about 700,000 people who die from cell phones in only North Carolina. Now the population is growing, which means it's higher now. Let's take the United States population in general. That population is 282 million. That is 141 times greater than North Carolina's population. The number of distracted driving in the United States during the 2000’s where about 6,000,000 people. You take the united states distracted driving accidents and divide it by 1.5. that's 4 million. now take the 6,000,000 and subtract the 4,000,000. That's 2 million. 1.5 percent is 2 million. What is one of your family members were part of that 2 million, but distracted driving was not banned. That 1.5 percent/ 2 million are gone. Now the population is even higher in 2015. People drive more, more accidents, and more people using cell phones, which means more cell phone users while driving. That has to be way more than what it was