Texting While Driving Can Lead to a Fatal Crash

Texting while driving can be compared to watching paint dry. It can only take 4.6 second to send and read a text message and it takes just a split second to cause another person’s life to end in a car accident. Many experts have likened the act of texting while driving to the equivalent of a drive-time driving blindfolded at seventy miles an hour. Although we may not think of it as much of a problem, the reality is that accidents involving texting drivers happen far too often.

Because the driver has no idea what the traffic laws are, and because he or she usually has no insurance coverage (unless they are using their own car), this type of driver is taking on a huge risk on a regular basis. The constant worry that they are going to get into an accident is enough to send many people into panic mode, and they don’t realize that they are paying for this stress all the time through their car insurance premiums. It can also lead to severe financial problems for the family if serious medical bills are incurred.

There are some who say that texting while driving is like watching paint dry. In many ways, it is true; everyone is busy sending text messages while driving their vehicle. However, the single act of looking down the window and actually communicating with another human being on the other line is a completely different situation. Conversing with another person on a cell phone can be very dangerous, and should never be attempted under any circumstances.

Statistics show that texting can cause: missed traffic stops, rear end collisions, car wrecks, more tickets, more DUI’s, higher insurance rates, and more. Not to mention the potential damage that it can cause to another vehicle and possibly cause bodily injury or even death. Studies show that drivers that are using cell phones while driving increases their chances of having an accident by 55 percent. This is compared to drivers that don’t text while driving.

Text messaging while driving can lead to a number of different accidents, one of the most common among them is talking on their cell phone while behind the wheel. Another common cause of texting while driving is the use of prescription pain killers such as Tylenol and Motrin. In addition to having this agent in their system, these prescriptions increase a person’s tolerance to pain, which causes them to feel less discomfort when driving. Also, texting while driving increases a person’s risk of having a drink driving; drivers who are dehydrated are much more likely to have a drink.

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These numbers do not include texting and driving accidents that occur because of a driver’s distraction from other objects in the road. A distraction caused by objects will not be counted and will probably have to be measured against the driver’s reaction time. Unfortunately, there is no real way of measuring how many times a driver will be distracted during any given driving trip. Some estimates say that it may be double or triple the number of accidents that occur each year due to distractions. Therefore, it is impossible to state exactly how many texting while driving accidents there are each year; however, it is safe to say that they are happening more often than most people think.