Texting while driving is a serious safety issue with our drivers today, a risk of an accident or near accident is 23.2 times highter. The problem may become more severe as more teens become licensed drivers, and as adults add it to their cellphone comminication abilities. At least a hundred thousand motor vehicle accident occured because texting was involved. Twenty-one percent of one point two million accidents occured because the use of a cellular device. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2009, half a million people were injured and fifty-five hundred were killed do to distracted driving. When a person is legally drunk they are four times more likely to get into an accident, when you are texting while driving the chances are eight times more likely: double that of a drunk driver.
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