Persuasive Essay On Texting And Driving

National Awareness while Driving “It was the day before Thanksgiving 2005, Patrick Sims a ‘Text Messaging Champ’, was driving home from a Denver-area video store, when he accidentally killed a man riding a bicycle. Patrick was texting a friend, looking up just in time to catch sight of the bicyclist slamming into his windshield, shattering the passenger side window and denting the hood of his Chevy Cobalt.” (Schindehette 121). “Three days passed when word came that the victim, an athletic cycling fanatic and the married father of two grown daughters, had been taken off life support and died. That, says Patrick, now 19 and attending metropolitan State college of Denver, is when it really sunk in.” (Schindehette 121). Patrick’s statement in response to his involvement in a fatal

‘Internet Addiction’, related to the use of Social Media is real according to Jim Taylor of Psychology Today.” (Taylor 1). The “Internet Addiction” which now starts early in childhood, progressing through the school years, and into young adulthood, creates a casual attitude towards texting and driving. So, early education and awareness of all laws, especially federal laws regarding the prohibition of texting and driving, would make a big difference in the safety of everyone on the road. Now, the question readers of this subject are going to ask themselves: “Should text messaging while driving be banned?” (McCarthy 2) “Yes”, says Cathy McCarthy, a New York Democrat serving her seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C. (McCarthy 1). Ms. McCarthy supported “The ALERT Drivers Act” (Alert 112) that was mentioned earlier. She is empathetic to the opinions of multi-tasking people in today’s world, but goes on to express that: “There is compromised safety, for those drivers that continue to use those devices while driving.” (McCarthy