TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Texting while driving has become a huge issue for local Houston auto accident attorneys. Everyone seems to have a cell phone and use it constantly. The dangers of using a phone while driving are becoming more apparent in and around Houston. Houston attorneys are seeing an increasing number of cases of negligent and reckless driving involving texting.

Texting while driving takes your eyes off the road. Even if only for a second, you are driving blindly. You wouldn’t put a blindfold over your eyes and get in the car, and you certainly wouldn’t drive with something covering your windshield. The effect of texting is the same: you cannot see what is happening. Many cases involve drivers who simply weren’t looking, and either hit another car or drifted into a different lane.

SLOWED REACTION TIME

Texting and driving slows down your reaction time remarkably. An experienced Houston car accident attorney can relate a number of stories in which a driver failed to respond correctly to their surroundings because they were looking down at a text. Much like driving under the influence, texting slows down the time your brain has to register and respond to stimuli. Because you’re distracted, you don’t have the time you would normally to get out of the way of another car or stop for an unexpected pedestrian. This has become an increasingly alarming occurrence in and around Houston. Attorneys are seeing more cases in which drivers “just didn’t see that oncoming car” because they were texting.

Probably the most important reason a local auto accident attorney in Houston would give not to text while driving is the seemingly countless accidents that have already been caused. Each year, millions of people are affected by these accidents. Texting while driving affects a huge number of local residents. We’ve seen time and time again, lives cut short because of a few words of text on a phone. This is the number one reason not to text and drive: we know from experience that it kills.

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