Drivers using cellphones creates distracted driving, leading to major accidents and even fatalities. Author of “Indiana’s Texting- While- Driving ban: Why it Is Not Working and How Could It Be Better?”, Emma Gormley, mentions “In 2012 alone, the National Safety Council estimated that texting while driving was responsible for between 281,000 and 786,000 motor vehicle crashes.” (88). Imagine if the statistics for texting and driving went down at least twenty percent due to a ban. The numbers would go from 786,000 …show more content…
Eventually society should not have any people in either the texting or talking sections. If you notice, the “No Device use” section is rather large in every category, but there is still a lot of texting in most of the categories. With texting laws in place the amount of texting and driving should dramatically increase to extremely little or even none. Society tends to text more while there is no front seat passenger so people are only putting their own lives in danger. All of these individuals texting and driving might as well drink and drive due to the lack of control of the vehicle while in