text: Texting while driving is not a very smart thing to do, it puts you, the passengers, and others close to your proximity in danger or at least upping the odds for a car accident. About 1 in 4 car crashes are caused by texting and driving this means about 1.6 million car crashes a year caused by cell phones that's way too much in my opinion the laws that are being passed around this time about new phone laws while driving are 100 percent fine with me that will hopefully help the numbers decline a little bit.