The article I chose to write about this week is titled “Teen Messing with iPod Drives Jeep Into House.” This article is about an 18 year old who was in Long Island and crashed into a house because he looked down to change his iPod to a new song. The article states that there is a thing called shuffle and this could have been avoided. What exactly happened was “The distracted East Islip teenager first slammed his 2005 Jeep into a parked car, then lost control and sped across a few lawns before hitting the house at about 11:30.” The car hit the front of the house all because of a technology tool called the iPod. He ran into a 80 year old lady’s house. The driver received minor injured and the woman was taken to the hospital just in case.
This article affects me in a huge way. It is so scary to see that this can happen from someone looking at his or her iPod. Technology is such a great thing for us to have, but it is scary to know that it can put many people in danger. I think people need to obey the laws and do not text and drive. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/29/scitech/pcanswer/main5274193.shtml stated, “A recently released study by the VirginiaTech Transportation Institute found that truck drivers who were texting were 23 times more at risk of a "crash or near crash event" than "nondistracted driving." This website stated “As per talking on a cell phone, the same study found no increased risk for truck drivers and 1.3 times the risk for car drivers.” These statistics blow my mind to know that texting or looking at an iPod can put someone in so much danger. Technology is definitively a great advancement, but it does have it’s downfalls. I 100% believe in not texting and driving.
