{"id":12318,"date":"2014-10-03T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2014-12-19T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:36:27","slug":"utc-students-take-att-pledge-texting-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-students-take-att-pledge-texting-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC students take AT&#038;T pledge: no texting and driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"12320\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-students-take-att-pledge-texting-driving\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jaimie Davis&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410787360&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-02\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-02.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Conner Hensley was driving behind a car that was constantly wandering in and out of its lane, so he honked his horn three or four times to alert the driver.\u00a0 He soon realized the teenager behind the wheel was looking down and texting on his phone far more than he was looking at the road.<\/p>\n<p>Hensley, a UTC Health and Human Performance Exercise Science major and secretary of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars at UTC, is from Etowah, Tennessee.\u00a0 He is familiar with the consequences of texting and driving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"12321\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-students-take-att-pledge-texting-driving\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jaimie Davis&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410787468&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-04\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12321\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-04\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-04.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>His home is near the site of a horrific crash caused by a teenage driver who was texting and hit a McMinn County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputy\u2019s car head-on.\u00a0 Both were injured in the crash, but upon their recovery, they have paired up to educate drivers about the importance of paying attention to the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very strongly that people should not text when they drive,\u201d Hensley said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why he joined a group of students on campus who took the AT&amp;T pledge\u2014he promised not to text and drive.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its No Texting and Driving Campaign, AT&amp;T introduced a new hash tag, #X, to convey it\u2019s time to leave a conversation and start driving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"12322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-students-take-att-pledge-texting-driving\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jaimie Davis&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410787870&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12322\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"att-texting-campaign-2014-11\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/att-texting-campaign-2014-11.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many young drivers feel pressure to respond to their friends and text them while they are behind the wheel. By placing #X on social media sites or in ongoing texting conversation, a user notifies all parties that they are leaving the conversation to pay attention to the road.<\/p>\n<p>Be part of the UTC movement to stop texting and driving.\u00a0 Take the pledge to not text and drive. Text ICWMOCS to 464 329.\u00a0 The responding message will say: \u201cThanks for pledging not to text and drive and for joining the #ItCanWait movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spread the word and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ItCanWait.com\">www.ItCanWait.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers feel pressure to respond to their friends and text them while they are behind the wheel. 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