HE N RTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY April 2, 2008 • Volume 106, Issue 8 • The voice of NSU students, by NSU students NSU Exponent Stall for a Better Something: Krikac Hall 101 Meet the Band Newsroom: 605-626-2534 See pages 10-11. See page 4. Advertising: 605-626-3378 Photo courtesy of Sports Information. Fax: 605-626-2599 Photo by Exponent Staff. Email:
[email protected] Not texting while driving saves lives, reduces accidents Katy Hilton are four times more likely to have a Danielle Nickolas crash that results in a hospital stay, Campus Reporters according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. t is rare to go anywhere these As reported by livescience.com, a days without seeing study in 2005 found that an 1 someone driving while estimated 2,600 deaths and talking or texting on his or her cell 330,000 injuries happen every year phone. According to the Cellular as a result of drivers being Telecommunications and Internet distracted because of their cell Association, more than 254 million phones. people subscribed to wireless The site also states that a 20- communication networks as of something-year-old driver using a February 2008, compared to 1990 cell phone was equivalent to a 70- when there were a mere 4.3 million something-year-old driver not subscriptions. using a cell phone. The use of cell phones has Cell phones cause drivers to have increased drastically in recent years. a slower break time and are also Cell phones have become a slower to accelerate after stopping, necessity for adults, teens and even therefore causing traffic to back up.