Texting and driving can and will kill, many my age will say they have not texted and drove. Here is a fact that i got off of "Texting and Driving Fact"
Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55 mph, that's enough to cover the length of a football field.(2009,VTTI). That's only 1 of 30. Many think that it is ok, and that they have it under control, that they can text and not be hurt or killed or hurting someone else or even killing them. I have watched many videos to come up to do this topic. In the videos i have seen people killed by hitting other cars, trees, 18 wheelers, and even trains. People texting while driving are more likely to be killed or kill someone else than a person that has met or gone over the 0.8 legal limit. So think twice before you pick up the phone to read a text, or even send one to someone else because Texting and driving can and will kill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGCYkD9RzfU&feature=related
Monday, October 8, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Teenage DUI
While studies show that
teen drinking and driving has decreased by 54 percent, there are still about 1
million teens that drank and drove last year. Among teen drivers involved in
fatal accidents in 2010 1 in 5 had alcohol in their system.
Drinking and driving is bad enough when adults do it, but when a teenager does it is not only a bad decision but it is illegal as well. It is illegal for anyone to drink and drive regardless of age but it is against the law for anyone under the age of 21 to even ingest alcohol.
Teenagers can not handle alcohol as well as most adults so even drinking it is incredibly risky. Then to mix that with driving is not only putting yourself in danger but everyone around you. Alcohol impairs a persons sight and the ability to react to a immediate situation that requires fast reaction time. To make that worse a teenagers brain is not full developed so alcohol can have temporary or even permanent affects on their brain. Thousands of teenagers are injured or killed in car accidents that involved alcohol.
Drinking and driving is bad enough when adults do it, but when a teenager does it is not only a bad decision but it is illegal as well. It is illegal for anyone to drink and drive regardless of age but it is against the law for anyone under the age of 21 to even ingest alcohol.
Teenagers can not handle alcohol as well as most adults so even drinking it is incredibly risky. Then to mix that with driving is not only putting yourself in danger but everyone around you. Alcohol impairs a persons sight and the ability to react to a immediate situation that requires fast reaction time. To make that worse a teenagers brain is not full developed so alcohol can have temporary or even permanent affects on their brain. Thousands of teenagers are injured or killed in car accidents that involved alcohol.
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