Report: Distracted Driving Results In More Than 5,000 Unfinished Texts Each Year

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WASHINGTON—Describing the findings as “deeply troubling,” the U.S. Department of Transportation released a report Tuesday revealing that the growing epidemic of distracted driving is responsible for more than 5,000 unfinished text messages a year. “Far too often, drivers concentrating on their phones instead of the road lose control of their vehicles and get into accidents, tragically cutting short the messages they were attempting to type,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said of the report, which reviewed six years’ worth of gruesome automobile crashes that ended the texts of the drivers involved. “Of all these messages that were lost, many were very brief and still had many more words to go. Now, we will never know what they might have said, or where they might have been sent. Their abrupt, mid-sentence endings were both sad and unnecessary.” The report strongly urged citizens to avoid texting while driving, noting that distracted drivers aren’t just putting their own texts at risk, but also those of their passengers and other drivers.

 

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Thaaaat explains my messages being marked as read with no replies

How can you be concerned about just unfinished texts in case of these tragic driving accidents that lead to so many deaths. What about un-deleted history? What if they left the oven on? What if they didn't even get to cancel their Spotify subscriptions, those poor souls.

This is the most truthful thing I have read on twitter today

Poor guy receiving that tweet from her...always wondering if it was 5 seconds, 5 mins, 5 hrs, 5 years, 5 decades?

My mother’s always warning me about the dangers of “distracted driving”. I finally understand why!

IkenDorfGaming

Thoughts and prayers to the people left on read from these texts dotdotdot

You shouldn’t be doing anything while driving other than concentrating on the task in hand which is driving.

It’s sad to realize that we’ll never know what those texts could have accomplished if only they hadn’t been taken from us too soon.

I want to like this joke but it kind of hits a nerve with me. I know it’s funny though.

theonion tried to soften the blow like a 16 year old telling her parents she is pregnant

What about unfinished twe

She left me on read again...

Reminds me of this meme lol

Dong on titties

Tragic

FINALLY SOMEONE BRINGS IT UP, JOIN MY MOVEMENT TO STOP INCOMPLETE TEXTS!!

*is typing*

f in chat for those texts

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