Cell phone use and texting while driving are causing accidents, injuries and some fatalities. In Massachusetts, it’s against the law to text and drive.
Recent studies have shown eight people die every day in the U.S. from distracted driving.
Americans have an uncurbed addiction to devices, even behind the wheel of a car.
Recent polls have shown that 52 percent of parents text while driving. Their children are learning a very bad example from parents who text and drive. Often, it’s children who are reminding their parents not to text and drive.
Technology addiction is a real problem and a public health issue. It causes accidents, kills drivers and injures innocent people. Is a text worth dying for or killing someone else? Reaction time is worse than driving drunk.
The safest way to drive is to turn your phone off while driving. It can wait. Nothing is that important.
Distracted driving includes using cell phones, texting, eating, applying makeup and even flossing your teeth while driving.
After an accident, you will wish you had both hands on the wheel.
Showing courtesy to other drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as obeying the speed limits, not tailgating and not texting while driving make our roads safer for all.
Do the right thing, don’t text and drive.
Bill Keck
Greenfield