Editor:

   There are a lot of car accidents across our nation wide. Many cases among them come from the distractions such as changing the radio station, eating, putting on make up, and talking on the phone while driving.  

   The number of the car accidents keeps increasing every single year. Cell phone is a great thing that we all should have in order to make ourselves stay connected to our family and friends and it also can help us in emergency time. However, you need to know when you should use it and when you should not. When you use it in the wrong time, wrong place, it may harm yourself or others very badly.

   I am a Maine resident; I live in a small town in the south of the state called Saco. I am a student at SMCC in South Portland, so it takes me about 40 minutes to get to my school. One day, while I was driving to my school on Route 1 in Scarborough, I sat at a busy intersection behind a person who was talking on her phone. She missed at least three opportunities to merge into traffic before one of the drivers behind sounded their horn. The woman immediately floored the gas and blindly pulled into the flow of traffic, where she narrowly missed broad-siding another car.

  So the time has come to ban cell phone use while driving a car. Otherwise, as the number of the car accidents rise up, you never know; it could happen to you one day.

Sibora Prak

Saco