Blunt force trauma, brain matter bubbling through the cracks, blood plastered on the ceiling. This is the fate for more than 6,000 teenagers in America due to texting and driving.
    "Texting while driving is very dangerous because sometimes I get so into what my text message says that I don’t really concentrate on what I’m doing while driving," junior Ray Gomez said.
    Accidents happen, there is no avoiding them. Teenagers are already more likely to be involved in a car crash than an adult, due to a lack of experience.
    Texting decreases reaction time by 35 percent and decreases steering capability by 91 percent.
    Texting while driving makes it twenty-three times more likely for a crash to happen. If given the chance to prevent an accident and drive away with your life, it makes sense to take it.
    "My biggest fear of texting drivers is that they don’t understand that they’re risking everyone’s life that is around them as well as their own. They think it’s harmless, but it only takes one or two seconds for something to happen. If something actually did happen, you won’t hear them saying that the text was worth it," senior Donnie Wolfe said.
    Drivers need to have a sense of responsibility and control because they hold the lives in the car and those around them in their hands.
    An overturn of the steering wheel. Glancing out the wrong window. Looking at the phone in your lap, typing away instead of looking at the car in front of you that swerved to avoid the child chasing after the ball.
    Lives can be ended in the second took to read a message composed of nothing equitable to a living breathing being.
That stop sign or red stop light is so easy to miss if attention is focused irresponsibly. Stop and pay attention. Stop the stupidity. Stop the deaths. 
    "I think I would definitely not want to be on the road with someone that texts while driving much less be asking them for a ride," senior Ryan Coates said.