text: states,"The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year". This statement made by the author is showing us how serious texting and driving is. Everytime someone picks up their phone they will possibly become another accident caused by texting and driving. Also in the article it states,"Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk". We all know how serious and dangerous drunk driving is so if texting and driving is more dangerous than that then we have a real problem on our hands.