text: Just a little over 4000 people in 2018 died or caused death while they were using their phone and driving, that may seem like a small number, but those crashes caused at least $129 billion or 15% of over all societal damage. Driving while on the phone is and should stay illegal it'll cause less death every year and accidents in general, god knows we need to stop having manmade disasters. I feel as if they need to make the law stricter though so people actually learn to stop texting and driving, put them in jail for 5 days or something like that it will for sure make them never want to text and drive again.