text: When a person is driving and looking at their phone rather than looking at the road seeing what is coming their way they are distracted. Being distracted on the road causes so many accidents. In the article cell phone use while driving statistics and driving and texting fact it states, " in 2018 according to the national highway traffic safety administration, distracted driving was involved in 2,841 motor vehicle crash fatalities." This proves that over two thousand crashes were caused by phone distraction just in 2018. If drivers were to stop using their phones while driving the amount of car crashes and deaths would go down drastically.