Texting Can Be Dangerous for Your Health

According to emergency room doctors, the widespread practice of multitasking can be particularly dangerous, especially when text messaging is involved. Text-messaging pedestrians, bikers, rollerbladers, and motorists are becoming more frequent emergency room patients, suffering sprains, cuts, bruises, and occasionally more serious injuries after bumping into lampposts, street signs, and walls and tripping over curbs. On a few occasions, pedestrians crossing the street while texting have been struck and killed by passing cars. The American College of Emergency Physicians is now warning people to text responsibly and pay attention to their surroundings.