text: Nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving. Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field. People think that it's not that much of danger when you just check a text but they fail to realize that they are driving on the road with other people that might not know how to drive that good there could be up coming traffic and they wouldn't know because there eyes are not on the road.