{"id":2437,"date":"2012-10-16T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgs.com\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T18:56:09","slug":"the-dangers-of-texting-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/the-dangers-of-texting-while-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Texting While Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about this important topic, but back on <a href=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/personal-injury-law\/texting-while-driving-a-dangerous-combination\/\">January 2011<\/a> and then again on <a href=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/personal-injury-law\/texting-while-driving-revisited\/\">April 2011<\/a> I commented on the dangerous of texting while driving by citing some important statistics.<br \/>\nSince the spring of 2011, we have experienced the continued increase of cell phone usage and the rising popularity of unlimited text plans. As a result, the dangerous of texting while driving are even more prevalent.<br \/>\nWe had this infographic created to show people just how dangerous it is. We hope it will raise awareness of this important issue and get people to think twice about texting the next time they are behind the wheel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dangers of Texting While Driving\" alt=\"Dangers of Texting While Driving\" src=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/images\/texting-while-driving-infographic-small.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"4581\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about this important topic, but back on January 2011 and then again on April 2011 I commented on the dangerous of texting while driving by citing some important statistics. Since the spring of 2011, we have experienced the continued increase of cell phone usage and the rising popularity of unlimited text plans. As a result, the dangerous of texting while driving are even more prevalent. We had this infographic created to show people just how dangerous it is. We hope it will raise awareness of this important issue and get people to think twice about texting the next time they are behind the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Dangers of Texting While Driving - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/the-dangers-of-texting-while-driving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Dangers of Texting While Driving - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about this important topic, but back on January 2011 and then again on April 2011 I commented on the dangerous of texting while driving by citing some important statistics. 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