Risks of ‘texting while driving’

Take out your cell phone and look at the last text you sent. Would that text be
worth dying for? (Risks of ‘texting while driving’)
Definitely not.
Sending or looking at the text to post or email from behind the wheels can be deadly. In fact,
studies have shown that those who text while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash.

“One day I just finished my work at Gurgaon medical office. It was around 9 o’clock and I was going home. My driver was driving, and I was sitting in the car, almost got home. I lived close to

Galleria Market, but I was travelling in this traffic obviously. I saw a girl driving a scooter right next to me. I am always fascinated by the girls driving a scooter because it was never a tradition when we grew up in Delhi. In any case, low and behold, she was driving right next to my car.
With one hand, she reached her jeans pocket and pulled out a phone. Suddenly, she put phone to her ear, and she started talking.

So, she was driving the scooter with one hand and talking and chatting at the same time. The she took off her phone from her ears and looked at the phone and tired to text with the fingers at the same time while she was driving too. I was shocked I almost closed my eyes. This is a very
high-risk behavior.”

This was dated November 27, 2012. There was a major study done by the Toyota Motors which shows a significant correlation with parent and teen behaviors behind the wheel, suggesting parents can play a crucial role in modeling risky behavior on the road for their teen drivers. The driver education begins the day a child starts turned around to face front. As the study shows, the actions parents take and by extension of their expectation they set for young drivers each day, are powerful factors in encouraging safe behaviors behind the wheel.

Seat belts and good defensive driving skills are critical and the best advice we can give to any parent is to be a very good role model driver if they want their children to be safe drivers on the road.This is especially in relation to the cell phone use while driving. It is a major issue everywhere in the world and US is especially very, very risky as the driving is very fast and here the children start driving at a young age. They get license at the age of 16 and start driving and nationally in United States it remains the leading cause of death for the US teens between age 16 and 19. Basically
bottom line is, while studies have proved that there is a strong correlation with driving behaviors and attitudes within the families.