Cell phones while driving?
How your phone can kill you.
Tragedies behind the wheel
Every day we hear on the news about car accidents, but do we really pay attention on weather or not the driver was using their phone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every day 9 people are killed and more than 1,153 people are injured in car accidents cause by distracted driver. In a study conducted by the CDC the United States was the country with the most people who use their phone while they drive. To read more about this on CDC's website go to this website http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/
Better use of our time.
As all of us know there is 24 hours in a day, but if that the case why do people always feel the urgency to check their cell phone right away even though they're driving? Why not wait until you get out of car. According to statistics, the average human spends an average of one hour and fifty one minuets on their phone either making a phone call or looking on social media. That leads to a grand total of 23 days a year in front of a phone screen. To read more about this topic go to these websites
"You do the crime, you do the time."
So far 14 states including Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories completely ban all types of cellphone usage, in which can be punishable by a fine or imprisonment. This means that if any police officer sees a person on their phones they can simply pull them over and ticket themRead more about this on this link. http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html
Citations
"Mobile Statistics." -Stats on the Mobile Smartphone and App Market. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2015. <http://www.mobilestatistics.com>.,MailOnline, Victoria Woollaston for. "How Often Do YOU Look at Your Phone? The Average User Now Picks up Their Device More than 1,500 times a Week." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 08 Oct. 2014. Web. 14 June 2015. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2783677/How-YOU-look-phone-The-average-user-picks-device-1-500-times-day.html>,Distracted Driving Laws." State Distracted Driving Driving Laws. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2015., http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html,