Texas texting while driving bill

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Texas Texting While Driving Bill
Everything that exists on this earth has its pros and cons, texting is normally used as a form of communication, and several governments have lifted bans on texting while driving. Texas designed a bill and projected it into the parliament where it was to be passed as a law, however, the bill didn’t meet the expectations and was withdrawn before it reached the Senate. The views for the bill did not out do those against. It was a proposal by the Texas government to have the bill into law so that instances of road accidents would be reduced. The government believed that those who drive while texting fails to observe road safety rules and end up causing accidents.
It was the right action by the government of Texas to enforce the bill. It saddens so much to see people dying every day; accidents don’t discriminate based on age, gender, or whether one is right or wrong. Young and old die in equal measure. This is the kind of accidents that are caused due to neglect by those driving. It is easy to prevent. Though the message send could be at an appropriate time, other peoples should be put into consideration. Though the bill didn’t pass, the government of Texas should rethink further and come up with ways to control phone usage while driving.
By enforcing the bill of a law, several lives of innocent people would be saved. The majority of accidents occur between private vehicles and passenger service vehicles; the PSVs usually carry a lot of people, and upon an accident, whole lives are lost.

These are the people who contribute to the economy, they reduce the level of poverty and increase the country’s gross domestic product.
Secondly, passing the bills into law will restore sanity in the transport sector. Texting while driving leads to time wastage, the time that would have been used constructively to improve the economy is spent making unnecessary communications, moreover, to curb the time wasted during driving, over speeding normally follows, and this subjects the individual’s life at great risks.
Having tried to put the bill into a law and failed, the Government should educate the people about the importance of keeping off the phones while driving. Statistics from the accidents and lives lost during the process should be availed for the citizens to read and understand. If an accident occurs due reckless driving and phone usage, the government should judge and imprison the culprits. It can be assumed as attempted murder. Technology should be improved such that there would be no networks within cars; this would will tremendously reduce road accidents. If texting is compulsory, then the government should set some points within the roads, where drivers will stop and make the necessary conversations, this can be done at intervals within the road.
To sum up, where important bills are proposed to be passed, the government representatives should be ready to accept, other people’s lives must be put into considerations before individual matters. It was a total failure on the part of representatives who rejected the lifesaving bill. Life is much important than anything in the world, those who were against the law should understand that the Texas government was doing it for the benefit of all the citizens. If it ever comes again, everyone rich or poor, driving or driven should be ready for a yes to the bill.