Imagine driving on the road and having to pull over for sirens. You continue and you see a car crash. You see somebody on the ground bleeding and another car in the ditch. You pull over to see if anyone is hurt and you see someone you know in the other car or your family member. The officers tell you the person who hit your relative was on their phone. How would you react to this? Distracted driving can increase a person's crash risk by 8 to 9% just by taking your eyes off the road. Sometimes taking your eyes off the road can take someone's life, or possibly your life. This is why people shouldn't use phones while driving. There are a lot of distractions while you are driving. The leading cause of distracted driving is on the phone. Taking…show more content… You could run someone off the road, or you could drive off the road and hurt yourself, your passengers, or possibly someone else. After the accident, investigators came to the crime scene and examined the crash. After examining the equipment, they review the phone records and see how much time they spent on it that day or if they were using it while driving. Likely, if the person has killed someone and the driver is still alive. They can be accused of vehicular manslaughter. The person will be traumatized and their crash risk will increase by 10-15%. This will make them possibly more dangerous on the road, and more of a threat to others. They would have to practice defensive driving. This decreases your crash risk. Secondly, driving while on the phone can cause death. You can accidentally go into the ditch because you weren’t looking at the road. You could hit signs and crash into a telephone or an electrical line. You could either die right away or die from blood loss. Your life is over in a blink of an…show more content… Stay off at red lights, stop signs, or driving. If driving with parents, ask them to take your phone if you don’t trust yourself. If they see you on it, they might yell at you and it will not be a good ride to the destination. If communicating with a friend, let them know that you will be driving and they will have to wait for you to respond until you get to your destination. Thirdly, you could kill someone else. 3,142 people have died from the other person texting and driving. You could have just ended someone's life. That person could have been a father, a mother, or a child, and how would that make you feel? You would feel terrible if you did. These accidents can cost you a lot of money and the other person's health bills. Thousands of accidents happen because someone took their eyes off the road to look at a text message or notification on their phone. Most of these accidents happen on busy highways, which will have a lot of traffic. Some will disagree with this statement. What if you have an important phone call that you have to take? You would either have to stay at your house and wait, or if you are already on the road, turn it off and call them back when you get to your
