text: While driving and texting is highly dangerous to yourself, it will endanger others either in the car, or around you. If you're driving especially with people in the car while texting, you are violating your safety and others in the vehicles around you. In the U.S, there are roughly 9 people and more than 1,000 injured daily from distracted drivers who weren't paying attention while driving on the road according to "https://www. thezebra. com/distracted-driving-statistics/". While not only getting in a crash, but if are caught texting while driving you will be pulled over by the police and be given a ticket.