Take Your Hands Off That Cellphone
by Ira V Panganiban
Globally, mobile phones are the biggest cause of accidents in what is now known as the "distracted driving syndrome." This
situation arises when a driver takes his attention away from the road and his car to do something else while the automobile is in
motion
In the Philippines, mobile phone use is the ranked as the 12th most common cause of traffic crashes based on the 2006
review of the National Statistic Coordination Board From 2001 to 2006 alone, road crashes caused by the use of mobile phones
increased five times or 500 percent, the highest rate of increase among traffic accident causes
Driving and texting is even worso. A Virginia Tech Institute study in July 2016 showed that texting while driving is 23 times
more likely to cause a crash. In that study, drivers were noted to have travelled the distance of a football field without their eyes
on the road What is worse is that texting while driving is like driving blind for five seconds or equivalent to driving after five
bottles of beer
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Questions:
1. What is the general statement of the text?
Driving and texting is even worse
2. What evidence were cited to support the general statement?
3. What kind of evidence were these (examples anecdotes logical reasons facts, statistics expert testimony)?
# How did the author of the article cite the evidence (direct quotation paraphrasing, giving the source)?
What did you learn from the text you just learned?
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