Texting and Driving - A Major Concern for Road Safety

Running head: TEXTING AND DRIVING
TEXTING AND DRIVING
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TEXTING AND DRIVING1
In the United States of America, texting while driving has become a common
problem, and many incidents of death and fatal accidents have taken place, due to this reason.
Distracted driving has become a major concern for the states of the country. The increasing
numbers of mishaps in the country, have included the term “distracted driving’, in the
dictionary (Coben, & Zhu, 2013).
Distracted driving refers to any activities that diverts the attention of a person, from
the act of driving. The in attentiveness can get created from various activities, like, drinking,
conversing over phone, eating, checking the navigation system or may be, texting while
driving (Hill et al., 2015). However, according to a recent report, texting while driving is the
most common phenomenon, and the count of accidents, due to that has reached an alarming
stage.
Driving is an activity that, needs full attention, and not being attentive to the road,
even for five seconds, can result into something very fatal and dangerous. In a recent report,
published by the United States Department of Transportation, it has been seen, that the
majority of the accidents and the incidents are taken place among the teen- agers of the
country, as a whole. Last year, approximately 3200 deaths were reported officially to the
Transportation Department of the country (Hill et al., 2015). Almost, all the reports of death
that have been projected or have been highlighted by the media of the country, are related to
the teenage groups. However, such situation of accident and mishaps have taken place among
the grown up men as well.
Consequences of distracted driving includes diverse factors, and is impacting upon the
social lives of the people. The Queensland University of Technology have clarified and
evidenced the fact, that, texting and driving is a major social concern for the company. The
scientific study of the situation has resulted into the understanding that texting or browsing,