Texting while driving has become a major issue, often causing life threatening injuries and deathly situations. More than 100,000 wrecks each year involve texting and driving. As convenient and easy as texting may be, it is extremely dangerous on the roads. Here are a few tips you can discuss with your teenagers to prevent them from texting and driving.
There are several apps you can download that will keep you from using your phone while driving. One popular app is called LifeSaver. LifeSaver blocks texts and calls away from your phone while you’re driving, so you have no need to use your phone. This app also rewards safe driving and allows you to share your location with people so that they can monitor your driving. Using an app like LifeSaver is one easy way to keep you off your phone on the roads!
Another simple way to keep the roads safer is to check your phone before you get in the car. By doing so, you’ll be less distracted while driving to your destination. Even if you check your phone at a stoplight, you are still distracted from your surroundings.
If it is extremely urgent that you check your phone in the car, it is safer to have someone check it for you. Texting and driving takes away from your visual, manual and cognitive skills. It takes your eyes off the road, your hands off the wheel, and your focus off the road. It’s easy to forget you’re sharing the road with several other people, so think about all of the other lives affected around you before texting and driving.
And of course, the most sensible – turn your phone off, or put the phone in your glove box to keep it from enticing you while driving. Using these tips, you can help make the roads a better place for you and those around you! Remember – nothing is so important that you must text and drive at the same time.
