Texting While Driving Speech Outline Description of

Texting While Driving Speech Outline Description of the audience for your speech: The audience for this speech would likely be comprised of members of the legislature, preferably members of Congress, who could enact a law in all 50 states because only this group can create laws on a national level. The topic of this speech is the problem of texting while driving and how it negatively affects people of the U.S. In all 50 states.

Specific Purpose: The specific purpose of this speech is to convince those in positions of power to create legislation which would make texting while driving illegal throughout the United States of America. Texting while driving is a highly dangerous practice that far too many people take part in; an activity which has led to a high number of automobile collisions, many injuries, and far too many deaths.

Question Based on Thesis: How does texting while driving negatively affect driving ability and how many incidences have there been because of texting while driving? Main Points: 1. 23% of all auto collisions in 2011 were caused by cell phone usage, equaling 1.3 million incidences (Texting). 2. Texting while driving makes a person 23 times more likely to get into a car accident (Texting). 3. Thirty-nine states, as well as the city of Washington, D.C., have laws which outlaw any use of cellular phones while driving which has successfully diminished automobile collisions (Texting). 4.

Any usage of cellular phones while driving, including calling, texting, or surfing the web is highly dangerous. Outline: Attention: On your way home today, you could be driving and following all the laws of the road but then you find that you have hit someone. Five seconds of legal texting and people are dead or seriously injured. People are driving while distracted and they are causing accidents while doing something that most people admit to having done at least once: texting while driving.

Need: There needs to be national legislation which bans texting while driving across all fifty of these United States in order to prevent further accidents caused by distracted and inattentive drivers. According to statistics, distracted drivers make up 8,000 of the nation's daily car accidents (Distracted). In 2010, nearly 35,000 people lost their lives in car accidents, more than half of which were caused by distractions on the part of the driver.

An experiment conducted by Car and Driver Magazine found that texting while driving impedes reaction time of the driver even worse than driving while intoxicated (Austin 1). Satisfaction: States which have banned texting while driving have been able to punish those caught doing it (Bowens 1). People know that they are doing something illegal as well as unsafe and this makes them pause before picking up their phones again.

Texting while driving is dangerous and needs to be made illegal in order for people to stop doing it because simple logic is not curbing their actions. In order for people to be safe behind the wheel and for their passengers and the people in other cars to be safer, drivers need to stop texting while in the driver's seat. This includes both sending text messages and reading messages that have been sent to them. Visualization: Imagine, driving down the road and being struck by someone from behind.

You get out of your car and they have their phone in their hand but are trying to blame your for the accident. Imagine being the driver of the car who hits another.