Do You Text And Drive?

[BFritz21]

When I'm out on the corner waving and blowing kisses to cars, I see so many people texting and driving and it bugs me so much because you're saying that sending a text message is more important than the people's lives who are in cars around them.

"I'm only looking down for less than a second."

You have less time than that to react if someone breaks in front of you or anything else that requires you to react.

Think of how childish that is that sending a meaningless text is more important than making sure you don't wreck into someone, potentially harm them, damage their car, and potentially harm anyone that trusted you to drive them.

Statistics are showing just how dangerous it is:

Quote:-Nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
-1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
-Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.

1 in 4, and I'm sure the number is actually higher from people lying when they get into wrecks.

It makes you 6 times more likely to wreck than drunk driving. Think about that: you tell your kids or friends not to drink and drive and how stupid it is, but you do something 6 times more likely to be in a wreck if you text and drive.

Be honest, do you text and drive?