Personal Narrative: The Dangers Of Texting While Driving
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Despite the warnings and statistics,thousands of American drivers continue to send and receive text messages,behind the wheel. Every year, countless car accidents are the result of texting while driving .The numbers are climbing sharply. Trust me I know because I was the victim of one. Even though I wasn't severely injured this accident still took a toll my life . I usually don’t text and drive but this day I had the urge to . Everyone else was doing it so why couldn't ? I thought I was invincible but I was completely wrong . It started off as any other day would as I got into my pearly white 2014 Nissan Maxima . Cautiously backing out of my drive way as I waved goodbye to my mother, not knowing the next time time she would see me I will be in a horrific car wreck . Before reaching the stop sign…show more content… She rejoiced when she saw me alive , which made me feel a bit better. Expressing her joy through gestures and words she stated “ Courtney please don't ever scare me like this again”. I responded with a tight bear hug and said “ I won’t mom I won’t’’ .My mom got pretty busy filling out paper work and consulting with the police officers and tow truck people. This was the perfect moment for me to step aside and thank god , so thats what I did. Thanking him for protecting me and not ending my life at that very moment during that perilous accident . It was an complete eye opener and life changing experience. I tried calling my boyfriend multiple times to notify him about the accident he wouldn't answer. I texted ,called, snapchatted him and everything still no response. Later on that night I found out he went on our date with another girl. With my emotions all over the place I reacted immediately and dumped him. Texting him plain and simple “IT’S OVER” nothing more nothing less .Though this was a very emotional day for me overall I was happy still be here. I had bigger and better things to worry about rather than a