Texting And Driving Leads To Car Accidents, Personal Injury and Even Wrongful Death

According to the National Safety Council, 1,600,000 car accidents per year are caused by texting while driving. Nearly 25% of ALL car crashes are caused by texting and driving. Serious personal injury or even wrongful death can result from these types of accidents.

Texting while driving is about 6 times more likely to cause an accident than driving while intoxicated. It is the same as driving blind for 5 seconds at a time. If you are driving 55 miles per hour and texting, you would drive the length of a football field without looking at the road.

Texting and driving slows your brake reaction speed by 18%. There are 800,000 drivers at any given time across the country texting while driving.

Texting and driving is one of the riskiest things a driver can do.

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