Don’t Text & Drive Your Life Depends On It

1. Don’t Text & Drive Your Life Depends On It • By: Micah Penhollow • 8B History

2. Would You Do This!?! Where u at lol where r Yeah

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4. What About Now? • Ashley • Last text from her sister was “yeah” • She flipped her truck • Ashley died • Sister lives with guilt every day • Mariah • Last text from her boyfriend was “where u at” • Hit the median and was thrown from her car • Mairiah died • Mom celebrates Mariah’s birthday every year with her friends

5. What About Now? • Patrick • Text before accident was “lol” • Hit a man on a bicycle and killed him • Had to do community service • Has emotional problems • Random Dude • Was passenger in a car with a friend who was driving • Friend texted before the accident “where r” • Car hit tree • Random dude has permanent brain damage

6. Cell Phone Use Statistics • Drivers under age 20 had the highest proportion of distracted drivers involved in fatal crashes at 16% and drivers age 20-29 were the next highest at 12% • Cell phone use behind the wheel reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37% • The risk of a crash is 4 times higher when a driver uses a cell phone even if it’s hands-free • 58% of high school seniors and 43% of high school juniors report texting or emailing while driving • Teens sends and receive about 100 text messages a day • Some activities such as texting take the driver’s attention away from driving more frequently and for longer periods than other distractions Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009.

7. Cell Phone Use Statistics con’t. • 1.6 million car accidents every year cause a half million injuries and 6,000 deaths • 80% of all car accidents involve some type of distraction • 11% of drivers talk on their cell phones every day • The reaction time of a teen driver using a cell phone is the same as a 70 year old grandma not using one • Texting while driving is 6 times more likely to cause an accident than driving while drinking • Texting and driving for 5 seconds is equivalent to driving the length of a football field blindfolded at 55 mph. Source: http://www.dontextdrive.com

8. Key Facts • In 2009, more than 5,400 people died and about 448,000 people were injured in crashes reported to involve distracted drivers • Among those killed or injured in these crashes, nearly 1,000 deaths and 24,000 injuries included cell phone use as the major distraction • The proportion of drivers reportedly distracted at the time of a fatal crash increased from 7% in 2005 to 11% in 2009 • Source: Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts: Distracted Driving 2009. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, September 2010. Publication no. DOT-HS-811-379. Available from http://www.distraction.gov/ . Accessed June 27, 2011.

9. Distractions While Driving Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

10. What Do Teen Drivers Say? • 9% of drivers in the United States reported texting or emailing “regularly or fairly often” while driving • 52% of U.S. drivers ages 18-29 reported texting or emailing while driving at least once in the last 30 days, and more than a quarter report texting or emailing “regularly” or “fairly often” while driving • 90% of teens see passengers in a car who are distracting the driver • 50% of teens report seeing passengers encouraging drivers to speed, sometimes going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit Sources: Porter Novelli. (2010). HealthStyles 2010 Survey. Unpublished raw data. Washington, DC: Adam Burns. http://www.teendriversource.org

11. Teen Drivers Report This Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

12. Why Give it Up? Source: Winston FK, et al. Eds. Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look. Published by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies®. 2009

13. Tips to Follow When Driving • Don’t ever send or read a text • Turn off your cell phone • Take out the cell phone battery • Put your cell phone in the trunk • Try wearing driving gloves so you can’t text back Sources: http://www.donttextdrive.com http://www.dosomething.org/news/5-tricks-will-stop-you-texting-while-driving.com

14. Reasons Not To Text • It’s against the law • You could hurt or kill someone • You could hurt or kill yourself • You could spend time in jail or be a juvenile delinquent • It could cost you or your parents a lot of money

15. 5 Ways to Get Drivers to Stop Texting • Direct Approach – “I’m sorry, I don’t like it when people text and drive.” Most will admit it’s not a good idea • Subtle Approach – “If you want me to text for you, I will.” Text for the person and say “drive right now, text later.” • Wow look at the Bad Driver Approach – “Wow, did you see how that guy’s driving, he’s all over the road.” • Group Approach – Everyone in the car agrees the driver is a hazard and then take away his keys and say “We aren’t going to ride with you if you text and drive.” • Life Saving Approach – “My parents said I can’t ride with my friends if they text and drive, because it isn’t safe.” Source: http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/no_texting.html

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