Protect Yourself From Texting Drivers: Driving Defensively
Texting while driving makes a person 23 timesmore likely to crash. This is due to the amount of time spent looking away from the road, the minimum of which is 5 seconds, when texting. While this may not seem like a long time, when driving at 55 mph, a person will travel the length of a football field in 5 seconds, all while not looking at the road or cars around them.