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by Briggs Witmyer1 view·Updated Apr 18, 2024
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  1. Sadly at five o'clock PM, yesterday,
  2. a teenager has ran to the side of a divided highway
  3. text and drive or a funeral. At five,
  4. this teenager was texting while driving.
  5. And as seen from an AT&T interview,
  6. 97% of teenagers say that texting while driving is dangerous,
  7. but 43% of them still text and drive.
  8. This is very dangerous. As we can see. Everybody thinks
  9. that texting while driving can cause problems,
  10. but it's so addicting. 43% of them still do it.
  11. This can stop,
  12. we can put down our phones.
  13. We've resisted temptation before
  14. as we know it is a set
  15. take
  16. some while driving has also caused around 6 million accidents
  17. in just one year.
  18. That is 6 million accidents that can be reduced to zero
  19. as us Americans
  20. have changed before
  21. and we can change again.
  22. I believe so.
  23. 520 pedestrians are killed each year by distracted drivers
  24. and 421,000 pedestrians are injured from distracted driving each year.
  25. No,
  26. if we were more aware of our pedestrians,
  27. if we knew
  28. that we were driving a £2000 machine
  29. and
  30. we knew that I could kill someone
  31. that I could hurt someone.
  32. How would we text? We drive?
  33. I
  34. know we're in a public area.
  35. Let's keep that in our minds. People. We have other people's lives in our hands.
  36. Since 2010,
  37. 660,000 drivers are using their cell phone while driving
  38. 660,000 people at any given moment are using their phone while driving
  39. people. This is disappointing.
  40. People, Look at our country
  41. and sigh,
  42. seeing us Americans being so lazy. Let's put down the phone.
  43. We can do this. People.
  44. Tuna.