February+-+Texting+and+Driving

February Issue -- Texting and Driving

__Alissa Meyer:__ Texting and Driving Statistics -- When texting while driving a person’s reaction time is decreased by 35% -- If caught while texting and driving you can be fined up to $500 and sentenced to 90 days in jail -- The use of a cell phone while driving in general is equivalent to driving with the blood alcohol limit of 0. -- Studies show that texting takes a driver’s focus away from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, enough time to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph. -- Texting and driving increases your risk of crashing by 25% -- 1.6 million accidents happen every year because of the driver texting while behind the wheel -- 50% of teens admit to texting while driving

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30SpScVCfAI&feature=related video is **REALLY** graphic

__Grayson Morris:__ --The number 1 distraction for drivers is the use of a wireless device. --Talking on a cell phone while driving can make a young driver’s reaction time as slow as that of a 70-year-old. --Over one-third of all young drivers, ages 24 and under, are texting on the road. --Teens say that texting is their number one driving distraction. --An accident can happen in two to three seconds while texting. --Almost 65% of all teen passenger deaths occurred when another teen was driving --For every 6 seconds of drive time, a driver sending or receiving a text message spends 4.6 of those seconds with their eyes off the road. This makes texting the most distracting of all cell phone related tasks.

__Cameron Yudkin__: I know its probably too late but I had to put this on here... []