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Is Texting While Driving Really Worth Your Life?

 

A: So there you are driving along when that important message comes in. It’s the one you’ve been waiting on all day from:

• Your client or boss,
• Your spouse or significant other
• Your  teen

What’s the harm in checking it while you drive or just texting back a quick reply? After all, it will just take a few seconds.
But the cost of sending even one text while you drive may be much higher than you think! It could be very hazardous to your health or someone else’s, and at the very least, raise the cost of your insurance. More and more evidence and statistics are mounting daily, linking texting while driving to accidents, injuries,  litigation, and even death.
Studies show that motorists who text while driving are 23 times more likely to get into an accident. And the  use of cell phones by drivers cause 1.6 million accidents each year, resulting in half a million injuries and more than 6,000 fatalities, according to the Department of Transportation. And almost 200,000 of those crashes are specifically linked to driving while texting.
Teens are the most likely age group to be texting while driving, statistics show, which is why new tech-savvy solutions are coming to the forefront. A new system called “Textecution” can be downloaded by parents and it disables a phone’s Internet and texting functions when a person is traveling at speeds of 10 miles per hour or greater.
Other research has shown that texting causes a whopping 400 percent increase in time spent with eyes off the road. In fact, a study by Car and Driver Magazine found that texting while driving not only causes reaction times to be four times slower but is also more dangerous than drunk driving.
So the next time you think about picking up the phone to read a text or send a reply while driving, you may want to pause a moment and reconsider. That simple act could have devastating consequences for you and someone else.
If you or someone you know has been injured by someone who was texting while driving, you need to contact  a legal expert. Call a Deltona car accident attorney at Zimmet & Quarles to help you determine your best course of action after a devastating Florida car accident that involved texting while driving.

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