Texting and Driving

Why Should You Not Text and Drive?

 Illegal

o Penalties for texting while driving could include hefty fines, license suspension, rise in auto insurance
rates, prison time
 Using a cellphone while driving is dangerous to you, your passengers, other motorists, and pedestrians

How to Prevent Texting and Driving?

 Use the car OR your cellphone
 Put your cellphone in the glove compartment before starting the car
 If someone calls, let them leave you a message and call them back
 If you must make or answer a call, pull over or have a passenger make or answer the call
 Use a program or service that tells incoming callers that you are driving and to call back or leave a message

Why is texting and driving dangerous?

 Texting and driving is especially dangerous because it involves all types of driving distractions.
o Visual – taking your eyes off the road
o Manual – taking your hands off the wheel
o Cognitive – taking your mind off of what you’re doing

How much of an impact can sending one text make?

In just five seconds it takes to send or read a quick message, you’ve already gone the length of a football field (when
traveling at 55 MPH), and have paid barley any attention to the road.

Would you want a family member or friend to be on the road with someone that was oblivious to the traffic around
them?

Every time you get behind the wheel you are sharing the road with mothers, father, children, and friends, you wouldn’t
want anything to happen to your loved ones and others feel the same way. We can all make the road a safer place by
putting our phones down while driving.
Why should you not text
and drive?

Statistics

Prevention of Texting and

Driving
Why is texting and driving
dangerous?

How much of an impact can

sending one text make?
 Would you want a family member or
friend to be on the road with someone
that was oblivious to the traffic around
them?
 Illegal
o Penalties for texting while driving could
include hefty fines, license suspension,
rise in auto insurance rates, prison time
 Using a cellphone while driving is dangerous
to you, your passengers, other motorists,
and pedestrians

 Use the car OR your cellphone

 Put your cellphone in the glove compartment
before starting the car
 If someone calls, let them leave you a
message and call them back
 If you must make or answer a call, pull over
or have a passenger make or answer the call
 Use a program or service that tells incoming
callers that you are driving and to call back
or leave a message
Texting and driving is especially dangerous
because it involves all types of driving
distractions.

 Visual – taking your eyes off the road

 Manual – taking your hands off the wheel
 Cognitive – taking your mind off of what
you’re doing
In just five seconds it takes to send or read a
quick message, you’ve already gone the length
of a football field (when traveling at 55 MPH),
and have paid barley any attention to the road.

Every time you get behind the wheel you are

sharing the road with mothers, father, children,
and friends, you wouldn’t want anything to
happen to your loved ones and others feel the
same way. We can all make the road a safer
place by putting our phones down while
driving.