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Dev. College Writing
November 20, 2010.
Driving Intexticated.
Smart phones are one of the most widely used devices and the most popular ones. These little gadgets have become a very important part of our lives and body. We carry them around, keeping them close to us. They give us the feelings of safety and connection to other people. We are very dependent on them, and many people are even unable to make it through a day without a cell phone. Cell phones give us many benefits, although there is some anxiety and concern about their safety. They put our lives at risk when we use them while driving. I am sure everyone has witnessed other drivers that are so distracted by their cellular device that they resemble drunk drivers. The effects of distracted driving are so alarming that they caused a number of bills to be written to regulate cell phone use on the roads. Now it is the time to pass the laws on a federal level, prohibiting the use of the cell phones while operating a motor vehicle. We need these laws because the drivers using phones are seriously impaired and because already existing laws are not tough enough to stop the use of handheld devices in vehicles.
It is hard to argue that cell phones cause traffic deaths and injuries. Doctor Amy Ship claims that “current data suggests that each year… 1.6 million traffic accidents (28% of all crashes)… are caused by drivers talking on cell phones or texting.” In 2008, two days before Thanksgiving “nine-year-old Erica Forney was riding her bike home from school… She was in a bicycle lane… when she was hit by a Ford expedition driven by a woman who was looking down at her cell phone” (“Driving while distracted”). Same month, nine years earlier Patti Pena, mother of a two -year old girl, lost her daughter Morgan. She reports the driver “ran a stop sign at 45 mph, broadsided my vehicle and killed Morgan as she sat in her car seat.” The driver was distracted by a cell phone....