text: Using your mobile device while operating a vehicle is said to be "approximately 18% of all fatal crashes are caused by texting and driving", according to drive-safely. net. Within the year of 2012 itself, 3,328 people were killed because of texting and driving; while around 420,000 were injured. Also, a poll taken in the United States showed that 40% of teen drivers had admitted that they text and drive. These numbers have went up five times as much as they were.