Don’t Text and Drive Scholarship 2022 – USA (APPLY NOW)

The Don’t Text and Drive Scholarship is offered by Digital Responsibility and is available to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students.

The purpose of this scholarship is to help you understand the risks of texting while driving.

To be considered for this scholarship, you must write a compelling 140-character statement about why you pledge not to text and drive. The top 10 applications will be selected as finalists. Furthermore, The finalists will be asked to write an additional full-length 500- to 1,000-word essay about texting while driving.

We invite you to apply for this Digital Responsibility Scholarship if you are enthusiastic about responsible driving and believe that you can articulate your thoughts well in writing.

Details:

Host: Digital Responsibility

Eligible Country: United States

Age: No age limit

Award amount: $1,000

Awards available: 1

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Don’t Text and Drive Scholarship Requirements

• Must be an undergraduate student or a graduate student
• Must attend a university or a four-year college

10 Texting and driving facts

Here are some of the facts about texting and driving which also includes statistics behind texting and driving accidents.

• People who text while driving are 6 times more likely to get into an accident than those who drive while intoxicated. In short, you’re less likely to get into an accident while driving drunk than you are while texting behind the wheel.

• The average amount of time a driver takes to type out a text message is 5 seconds. If you’re driving at 55 mph and look down to text for five seconds, you’ve already driven the length of a football field. In 2014, the Journal of Adolescent Health reported that the maximum amount of time a driver can safely look away from the road is only two seconds.

• 11 teenagers die every day due to texting and driving. Teenagers are 400% more likely to get into an accident from texting and driving. AT&T’s Teen Driver Survey found that 97% of teenagers think it’s dangerous, while 43% of them engage in the activity anyway.

• According to the National Safety Council, cell phone use while driving leads to 6 million accidents per year.

• Drivers distracted by texting are 8 times more likely to be involved in a collision than non-distracted drivers.

• A University of Utah study reported that a teen driver who is using a cell phone has the same reaction time as a 70-year-old driver who isn’t using a cell phone.

• 64% of all vehicle accidents in the United States each year are caused from cell phone usage behind the wheel—that’s 1.6 million accidents.

• Since 2010, over 660,000 drivers are using cell phones while driving at any given moment in the United States. The Office of Traffic Safety chalks this up to how addicted Americans have become to technology and cell phones.

• 520 pedestrians were killed by distracted drivers in the United States in 2014.

• 421,000 people in the United States are injured each year by a distracted driver.