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When weare on the road, however, irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers, weaving between lanes, for example, or nearly running down pedestrians in crosswalks. A number of bills to regulate use of cell phones on the road have been introduced in state legislatures, and the time has come to push for their passage. Regulation is needed because drivers using phones are seriously impaired and because laws on negligent and reckless driving are not sufficient to punish offenders.\u003Cbr>No one can deny that cell phones have caused traffic deaths and injuries. Cell phones were implicated in three fatal accidents in November 1999 alone. Early in November, two-year-old Morgan Pena was killed by a driver distracted by his cell phone. Morgan’smother, Patti Pena, reports that the driver “ran a stop sign at 45 mph, broadsided my vehicle and killed Morgan as she sat in her car seat.” A week later, corrections officer Shannon Smith, who was guarding prisoners by the side of the road, was killed by a woman distracted by a phone call (Besthoff) . On Thanksgiving weekend | Title is\u003Cbr>Opening catch attention\u003Cbr>Thesis Angela point.\u003Cbr>Daly topic\u003Cbr>Signal the quotation\u003Cbr>No page available Web\u003Cbr>Author’s given inses; no ber is |\n| --- | --- |\n\ncentered.  \nsentences  \nreaders’.  \nasserts Daly’s main  \nuses a clear sentence.  \nphrase names author of the to follow.  \nnumber is for this source.  \nname is parenthe  \npage numavailable.  \nMarginal annotations indicate MLA-style formatting and effective writing.  \nSource: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006) .  \nThis paper has been updated to follow the style guidelines in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. (2009) .  \nPage number is given available.  \nClear topic sentences, this one, used the paper.  \nSummary long quotation introduced a signal naming the  \nLong quotation set off from text; quotation marks are  \n\n| Daly 2 |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| when\u003Cbr>and are\u003Cbr>with phrase\u003Cbr>authors.\u003Cbr>is the\u003Cbr>omitted. | that same month, John and Carole Hall were killed when a Naval Academy midshipman crashed into their parked car. The driver said in court that when he looked up from the cell phone he was dialing, he was three feet from the car and had no time to stop (Stockwell B8) .\u003Cbr>Expert testimony, public opinion, and even cartoons suggest that driving while phoning is dangerous. Frances Bents, an expert on the relation between cell phones and accidents, estimates that between 450 and 1,000 crashes a year have some connection to cell phone use (Layton C9) . In a survey published by Farmers Insurance Group, 87% of those polled said that cellphones affect a driver’s ability, and 40% reported having close calls with drivers distracted by phones. Many cartoons have depicted the very real dangers of driving while distracted (see fig. 1) .\u003Cbr>Scientific research confirms the dangers of using phones while on the road. In 1997 an important study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The authors, Donald Redelmeier and Robert Tibshirani, studied 699 volunteers who made their cellphone bills available in order to confirm the times when they had placed calls. The participants agreed to report any nonfatal collision in which they were involved. By comparing the time of a collision with the phone records, the researchers assessed the dangers of driving while phoning. The results are unsettling:\u003Cbr>We found that using a cellular telephone was associated with a risk of having a motor vehicle collision that was about about four times as high as |\n\nlike are  \nthroughout  \nSource: Di","cbCaicaoT6IjFPmn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicaoT6IjFPmn","pdf",676151,7,"English","# Introduction\n## Reasons for Regulation\n# Evidence and Research\n## Accidents and Testimony\n## Expert Estimates and Public Opinion\n## Scientific Studies\n# Addressing Counterarguments\n## State Law Limitations","[{\"question\":\"Why does the essay argue that regulating cell phone use on the road is necessary?\",\"answer\":\"Because drivers using phones are seriously impaired, and existing negligent or reckless driving laws are not sufficient to punish offenders.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of evidence does the essay use to support its claims?\",\"answer\":\"It cites specific accidents and court testimony, expert estimates, public survey results, and a scientific study that compares collision risk with and without phone use.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay respond to the argument that state traffic laws make regulation unnecessary?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that traffic safety laws vary by state and that drivers distracted by cell phones can still receive only light punishments.\"}]","A Call to Action - Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road | PDF",1790083022]