“Ma'am, I'm sorry to inform you but your daughter Jessica was in a car accident due to texting while driving, she is hospitalized at Alamance Regional Hospital ” . “Nearly 330,000 injuries occur every year due to accidents caused by texting while driving” (Texting and Driving Statistics). “1 in 4 car accidents in the United States are caused by texting and driving (Texting and Driving Statistics).” Receiving a text now in days means responding now. Many adults and teens feel compelled to respond to text messages as soon as they receive them, even if that means while driving a motor vehicle. Replying to a text message while driving a vehicle takes your view from the road to your cell phone in less than seconds. While looking at your cell phone many things can be seen physically or confess that they were texting while driving. Officer Kahn provided me with the incident report in Burlington, NC and it was 1063 incidents involving text/electronic communications, as well as 15 deaths and 432 personal injuries. The information provided shows that the numbers for texting and driving/having contact with electronics were the highest. Texting and driving is very serious, sustaining life-changing injuries from texting and driving is real and proven. True stories out there caused by texting and driving, for example a 21 year old Texas college student, Chance Bothe, ended up in the hospital while texting and driving. He had to spend six months in hospital recovering from his injuries (The 10 Worst Text Messages During Driving Accidents | The Stafford
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