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Texting and Driving

Texting and Driving. By Grace Rogers and Jenny Lake. “Text messaging requires visual, manual, and cognitive attention from the driver, it is by far the most alarming distraction.” . Meet Shelly Forney and Her Daughter Erica.

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Texting and Driving

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  1. Texting and Driving By Grace Rogers and Jenny Lake

  2. “Text messaging requires visual, manual, and cognitive attention from the driver, it is by far the most alarming distraction.”

  3. Meet Shelly Forney and Her Daughter Erica Shelly is not the only person who has been effected by texting and driving…

  4. Statistics • About 6,000 deaths and a half a million injuries are caused by distracted drivers every year. • Talking on a cell phone while driving can make a young driver’s reaction time as slow as that of a 70-year-old. • Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. That is enough time to travel the length of a football field.

  5. Statistics • 40% of all American teens say they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger. • Text messaging creates a crash risk 23 times worse than driving while not distracted. • Using a cell phone while driving - whether it's hand-held or hands-free delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. • Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37%.

  6. SafeDriversAct • On June 23rd, the Safe Drivers Act of 2011 was introduced. • If this bill is turned into a single national law, it will ban the use of all hand-held mobile devices while driving. • We would like to see this bill turned into a law because we believe it could greatly reduce the number of death and injuries caused by distracted driving.

  7. TrackingtheBill • By tracking the bills progress, we have learned that on June 24, 2011 the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure referred the bill to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. • The steps still needed to be taken: • Reported by Committee • House Vote • Senate Vote • Signed by President

  8. The Steps We Took • The next step we took was to email Congressman Roskam asking him his opinion on our topic and what he thinks our next goal should be. • We emailed him the link to our blog to show him the research we have done so far. • Our Blog: http://driving-intexticated.blogspot.com/ • We also posted our blog link to the cap website, so future CAP users can look at it and use our research and ideas.

  9. “The best way to end distracted driving is to educate all Americans about the danger it poses.”

  10. Sources • http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html • http://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/cell-phone/statistics.html • http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2333

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