Texting & Talking While Driving a Car
- The epidemic :
The FCC Chairman, Mr. Julius Genachowski, was quoted as stating:
“You’ve heard of the numbers. People who drive while texting are 23 times more likely to have an accident than a non-distracted driver.”
Texting while driving is, in fact, a very dangerous and life taking epidemic. Deaths occur every day because of it. Everyone who now does it knows that it is a reckless disregard for safety to do so.
Yet… it continues, day after day, mile after mile, unnecessary death after unnecessary death. We need society, and injuries, to recognize the change in what is acceptable conduct in the area. Texting while driving should be just as unacceptable to a jury as are drunk driving and fatigued driving.
According to the National Highway Transportation Administration, texting while driving is reportedly roughly six (6) times more likely to cause an accident than driving while intoxicated. It is also the same as driving after having consumed four (4) beers.
Reportedly, one in five drivers “surf the web” while driving. In 2011, approximately 23% of all crashes involved cell phone usage, which resulted in approximately 1.3 million crashes.
The national epidemic causes untold physical and mental pain, suffering and loss of lives. Economic damage of billions of dollars has been caused by crashes that involved texting while driving.
Most everyone today who talks or texts while driving a motor vehicle knows that is substantially increases the offs of being involved in a catastrophic and life-threatening crash. They still do it over and over again.
To text while driving is illegal in most states. It is a conscious choice to needlessly place the lives of others at a substantially increased danger and at a substantially increased risk of serious bodily injury or death. The use of a cell phone to talk, or to text, while driving is a very selfish, unsafe, and highly reckless act. If you are involved in a crash which was not your fault, please contact the attorneys at Bell & Pollock .P.C.
