Why do we need our phones in our hands while we’re driving? We need to stop looking at our valuable phones and start looking at the road.

Savannah BMS

Writer Savannah Vaughn

   If we keep our phones in our hands, we might not see what’s really important in life again. Texting can be fun and horrible at the same time in a car. Stop looking at your phones when driving. We may all wish you never did that.

   One way you can help solve this problem is by watching more carefully what your friends are doing, and if they are driving while texting, tell them you still want to live a while. You do not have to die now because your friend made a stupid choice. Stick up for yourself, because it may be the last time you ever can. Stress to your friend so he gets it. It might help him realize that if he wants to live, he needs to put the phone down. You can show him that you value your life! Show your friend that texting is a serious problem while driving. Make sure he understands!

   If you are a police officer, you can help, too! One way you can help is by going to schools and talking about how serious texting is. I’ll bet it would help kids understand how dangerous it is. And bigger fines might help, also. When drivers get the fine, they might not text and drive anymore. They might just learn a lesson. You can help them become smarter about texting and driving.

   Parents can also help. When you’re the parent, you’re in charge. Make sure your child knows that when you tell her not to text and drive, you mean it.

   Phone use might also result in lower grades. When lower grades occur, that might increase accidents because kids will be texting about how their grades are low and how they are going to get in trouble.

   You can help — tell your friends it is more impotant to watch the road than their cellphones. Just think: You might save another person’s life!

   Driving while texting is like driving under the influence. Let’s stop killing or injuring another person because we have to take a look at our phones. Come on, seriously — are our phones as important as somebody’s life? I would not want to be the one who is injured or the one who hit another person. I am sure I would feel bad. WHAT ABOUT YOU?

   Sincerely,

Savannah Vaughn

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of several letters of opinion written for WNLP by students in teacher Jen Sass’s sixth-grade class at Boston Middle School.