Your life and others are more important then responding to a friend when chances are you are most likely driving to that friends house.
I hardly ever speed; the times I have it was only 5 over, and I will not text and drive. I value my life and anyone else’s too much. If I am in my truck with another person I will have them respond to the text or will wait until I get to where I’m going.
Another thing is that if you ever get in my truck with me, my number one rule is that as soon as you get in you must put a seat belt on or we will not move until it is on. If something were to happen and you were not buckled I would feel like it was my fault and I do not want that put onto me.
So I ask you to join me in making the roads a safer place and having more teenagers return home safely every day.
Statistics credited to the CDC