Exposition

The Use Of Mobile Phones While Driving Should Be illegal

The use of mobile phones while driving is seriously dangerous; it affects your ability to focus on the road ahead. Driving while using your mobile phone has taken lives and has injured many people.
Driving while talking on the phone increases the risk of being in a crash by 400%. It is the same as driving at the legal limit for blood alcohol. In 1996 the number of crashes in New Zealand was only eight. During recent years driving while using a mobile phone has taken six lives and injured 411 people.
The New Zealand government is drafting a proposal to ban cell phones while driving. If caught using your phone while driving you maybe fined $50 and receive twenty-five demerit points.
Vodafone and Telecom are backing this proposal. A survey conducted by the AA shows that 76% of people want the use cell phones while driving banned.
Your reaction time and concentration levels decrease when you use mobile phones while driving. It will take you longer to brake, you are more likely to tail gate the vehicle in front and you are nine times more likely to be in a fatality when you crash.
If you use your mobile phone while driving, you are not only putting yourself in danger, but other people on the road as well.
So is that call worth dying for?