If you do, PLEASE don't! In my opinion its worse than talking on the cellphone and driving, and you shouldn't be talking while driving, so you definitely shouldn't be texting!
I read this article in The New York Times that made me think about this and how dangerous it is.
This poor 17 year old girl is now dead because of it. All because she decided to send a text message, not to mention speeding on a winding road, as an inexperienced driver but I'm sure her looking down at her cellphone on a winding road was the main reason. A very sad story.
Here's part of the article.
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y., July 13 (AP) — Text messages were sent back and forth on the cell phone of a 17-year-old driver moments before her sport-utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates on June 28, the police said today.
A text message was sent from the phone of the S.U.V. driver, Bailey E. Goodman, at 10:05:02 p.m., according to Sheriff Philip C. Povero of Ontario County, adding that a friend here sent a text message to Ms. Goodman’s phone asking, “What are you doing?”
“The message was received on the cell phone at 10:06:29,” Sheriff Povero said.
A call reporting the accident to the authorities from a passenger in a car the S.U.V. had passed just before the crash was made at 10:07, according to The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
“The records indicate her phone was in use,” he said. “We will never be able to clearly state that she was the one doing the text messaging.”
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