Are Cell Phones Life Savers, or do they Take Lives? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that texting while driving is responsible for 1.6 million crashes every year, which is the cause of 25 percent of all driving accidents. On the opposite side of the spectrum, families report that without a cell phone, loved ones couldn’t have been contacted during emergencies. States across the U.S. provide their citizens with specific driving laws. According to…