One Text Could Be Your Last

Written by Heather Hicks,, Fluvanna County High School journalism student | 24 August 2011


On the road, behind the wheel, and thumbing away – it happens all the time. Although the action of texting while driving is severely dangerous, it’s a danger that is constantly ignored. Studies by the Virginia Tech Driving Institute show that a person who chooses to text and drive is 23 times more likely to have an accident. Yet people do it all the time.

Sherry Doane, an FCHS math teacher, remembers a former student from Orange County who died while texting and driving home from work on Rt. 29. So with so many lives at risk, an important question arises: What would it take for people to speak up about the dangers of texting and driving here in Fluvanna?

When FCHS students were asked what they would do if they found themselves in a car with a texting driver at the wheel, they had a few solutions. “I would text for them,” said freshman Tezah Booker. “I would ask them to pull over,” said freshman Abby Neifert. Senior Kaersten Aylor was much more dramatic: “I’d throw the phone out of the window!” she said.


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