Texting on the Edge

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readJan 9, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bKRNzd8ZjM

“While there’s little current data about the number of people injured while texting, more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 after they were injured while using a cellphone to talk or text. That had doubled each year since 2006, according to a study conducted by Ohio State University.”
— If we continue at our current rate of texting dangerously, it will only take 18-and-a-half years for the country’s entire population to be hospitalized.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com