Injuries on the Rise from Texting and Walking
At Ohio State University, researchers
have conducted a study on how texting and walking is increasing injuries on
college campuses. From 2005 there were reported 256 injuries and in 2010 there
were 1,056 reported. The research conducted that the people who are most likely
to be distracted and texting and walking are people in the age range from 16-25
years old. Injuries ranged from falling off of a bridge and walking into moving
traffic. At University of North Carolina it went so far to the point where they
needed to start a campaign on walking safely and not texting. This article kind of reminded me about the
marathon in HongKong and how someone started to take a selfie and got wrecked
by oncoming runners. It really shows the stupidity of some people.
I chose to
blog about this article because it was a different approach and rather than
reading about a news story this was a video that talked about it. I think that
this approach was more interesting to me because you actually get to see
evidence. The lady broadcasting did a really good job at delivering the news. I
also chose this article because texting is extremely popular in my generation
and I have seen people do stupid stuff while texting and walking like run into
poles and even dumber things. I do not really know why someone would walk with
their head down texting while crossing a cross walk. I have seen people around
this campus even d things like that and not even realize that cars are coming
and then suddenly stop right before they’re about to get run over.
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2013/09/18/2833989/
I agree. Texting is not something you want to do while crossing a street. Is it really that important to text someone at that time. They can't wait until they cross. Then again, its your own fault if you are going to walk around and focus all of your attention to texting on your phone.
ReplyDeleteSo we know that cell phone usage during the Hong Kong marathon had consequences, and we know that in the U.S. cell phone usage causes accidents, too. What about other countries? Could you find stories about cell phone use in other nations' news?
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