text: In my opinion, phone usage in any capacity of moving vehicles should be prohibited. A one minute text or even just being on your phone is not worth your life or anyone else's. According to "Bran Law Firm", Almost 200,000 people die from fatal injuries every year. This is equivalent to about one person every three minutes. National averages report about 37,000 crash-related fatalities every year. This breaks down to about 101 deaths per day in the United States. When you are driving a vehicle your main goal is to focus on the roads, and everything going on around you.