Texting while driving is dangerous. I warn about this constantly. To me, it does not make any sense to try to drive a multi-ton vehicle and text on a 5oz mobile phone with mini-keys or a touchscreen. Where is the logic? What is that important?

Think about it.

This falls under the category of distracted driving. Let's think about the implications or scenarios that could unfold. You text and you are not looking at the road because you are texting and while you are looking at the phone instead of looking at the road, your multi-ton vehicle: (a) ends up in a ditch; (b) ends up on the wrong side of the road; (c) is involved in a collision; (d) or worse.

If you wreck your multi-ton vehicle but manage to only injure yourself, was that text message worth the insurance paperwork, the increase in your premium, the damage to your car and the damage to a helpless tree or some other form of vegetation or highway construction (ie a median). That would be a no - loud and clear.

If you wreck your multi-ton vehicle and manage to hurt someone else - either someone in your car or someone in another car, or a poor pedestrian, was that text message worth it? Is it worth the hospital bills, the blood, the police, the ambulance, the various traffic delays you have now caused, the stress on the victim's family, the increase in your insurance premiums, the damage to your vehicle and on and on.... Even worse, if you, while texting, managed to take a life, was that text message that important? That would be a no - loud and clear.

What did we all do before texting? What did we all do before cell phones? We waited to speak to that person where we could look at them face-to-face or where we could sit down and relax and talk to them on the phone in the comfort of our home - away from that multi-ton vehicle.

The more you text and drive, the more you endanger the lives of innocent people who happen to be unfortunate in sharing the road with you.

I really think it's disrespectful to text and drive. Your text is not as important as my life or the life of anyone else.

Stop and think.

You can always replace a cell phone or even upgrade a plan, but you can never replace a life.