CELL PHONE DRIVERS MENACES TO THE ROAD?

While driving a silver Truck along I-15 Saturday morning, a man on a cell phone tried to merge into another lane. What the man failed to realizes is that Stephanie Seybodlt, a 19 year old girl in a white Honda civic, was driving along side him.

“It was the scariest thing of my life.” Seyboldt responds. “I almost thought I was done for. Had it not been for a woman driving behind me who honked I may not have realized what he was doing.” It seems that yes we may have had cell phones for years now, but the concept of driving while talking or texting on a cell phone is still very new.

We have created new laws against using cells phones while driving, but has it helped? Kellie Anjewierden a junior at the Salt Lake Community College stated “I use to text and drive all the time, but ever since I got in an accident about a year ago while texting I have decided to quit that habit.” Recent laws have made it so we can not text while driving. Anjewierden goes on to say “I am grateful that my accident wasn't that bad so I was able to learn my lesson the easy way. I would hate for someone to loose their life in order to learn the lesson that I learned.”

The wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been found recently driving while talking on the phone. In California Schwarzenegger signed a law against such actions back in July of 2008. Obviously some people don't take some laws seriously. Utah has the strictest law in the nation if you were to kill or injure someone while texting while driving you can face up to 15 years in prison. So think about it. Are you willing to put your life on the line for a phone call?


Citations
Seyboldt, Stephanie. Personal Interview. 11 October 2009

Anjewierden, Kellie. Personal Interview. 10 October 2009


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