Danilo Apiado
English 155
Distracted Driving is cause by the used of any wireless electronic device while driving:
like cell phone and navigation system use. Another factor that lead driver’s distraction is, by
having pet inside the car, depression, and emotional stress. Distracted driving causes fatal
accident, and sometimes severe injuries which result of having mental disorder to the victim, and
victim’s family. As a citizen, try to be a lookout and report to the proper authority those people
using cell phone while driving. Wireless electronic device used cause the driver to be impaired
and will not able to respond to any sort of danger immediately. This is the reason that car
accident injuries and deaths rose in the United States. In this essay, I will discuss my opinion and
concern about the danger of distracted driving because my family had an unforgettable
experience regarding the use of cell phone while the driver is driving.
Aside from drinking under the influence of alcohol, distraction while driving is one of the
leading vehicular deaths in America. Distracted driving is becoming more and more dangerous
on America’s roadways and freeways due to wireless electronic devices that are coming out to
market in every six months. Driver distractions can occur anytime, anywhere and any place.
Drivers talking on the phone, texting, re-programming their navigation systems, eating, drinking,
reading maps, watching videos, putting on makeup, and shaving are of so many examples that
cause serious risks to everyone on the road. A distraction is anything that takes your mind away
from driver set and also causes your mind to be impaired. It doesn’t matter whatever you’re
doing, taking your eyes off the road for even a minute can be a big difference between life and
death. It’s too dangerous to use a cell phone behind the wheel, but many young adult, especially
teenagers drivers still play the odds by texting or talking on a handheld cell phone or operating a
wireless device while driving. With the soring increase of cell phones use in society today, it has
become common practice to use a mobile device while you are driving. By focusing on your
phone instead of what in front of you can prove to be a costly mistake. There is no such
proficient driver that you can think of when you have a cell phone in your hand that cause you to
be distracted.
Drivers are already immune, and spend more than half of their time behind the wheel that
engaged in distracted behavior. The facts that every year there were a lot of people were killed in
distracted driving crashes. Distracted driving diverts attention of the driver that results to
endangerment not only the driver, but also passengers, and bystander’s safety. Since wireless
phone was out of market, every Americans owning a cellphone, distracted driving has become a
