Effects of Cell Phones
As the eighteen-year-old guy drives through the twenty-mile-an-hour school zone, he suddenly receives an unexpected text message. As his temptation builds up, slowly reaching for the phone he loses concentration on the road. “Movies 2nite?”, the text read, by the time he realized it wasn’t important it was too late. The White Oak Sheriff’s wailing sirens caught the eighteen-year-olds attention. “Do you realize you were speeding in a school zone, sir?” Just like the eighteen-year-old many others create sticky situations for themselves using cell phones at inappropriate times. Cell phones impact people’s lives by creating accidents and increasing protection.
Cell phones nearly cause car accidents as often as drunk driving. For example, according to Edgar Snyder and Associates, in 2012, 3,328 people were killed in distraction-related crashes. While, CDC states that in 2012, 10,322 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. It is obvious from these statistics that there is a dangerous trend of careless acts of citizens. In addition, this problem is seen in our communities with more and more people taking this risk of texting and driving. For example, cell phones are great, but texting and driving can lead to major consequences.
Phones not only cause accidents, but also prevent them. For example, driving down Old Highway 80, Katy realizes she forgot to lock her front door, she slowly pulled into a Dairy Queen parking lot to open her Safeguard app on her Iphone 5c to activate her home alarm system. Feeling as though her home is safe once again, she gets back on the road. Cell phones keep the creepy robbers out of Katy’s home, just like many other’s homes
Therefore, using cell phones while driving may not be the best idea, but activating house alarms is. Whatever the use is, cell phones have made a major impact on human society.