I’ll just die if I don’t have the new iPod” or “Everyone else has a smart phone” are the kind of statements teenagers have used on parents. This is not a new concept for children. Parents everywhere have engaged in this type of battle with their children for ages. Parents, trying to give their children a better life than they had, usually indulge them. Are we really doing what is best or should we think before we please? The time comes for a teenager to get their driving permit. This is a rite of passage that comes with age. Parents spend hours instructing their teens on how to park, watch the speed, how to make a turn properly, and to watch the road. The time arises when one must let the child go with the keys. Mothers and fathers have given the speech on drunk driving and carefully instructed them to be home on time. Is this enough or has a new type of distraction been overlooked? A few hours after the teen leaves, the phone rings. It’s is the police on the other end of the line; “Excuse I am afraid your teen has been in a serious accident.” You are driving down the road in your brand new Cadillac Escalade. The sky is bright blue without a cloud in the sky. Your phone rings and you answer it. You start talking and get deeply involved in the conversation. Before you know it, you just ran a red light and get side swiped by a school bus. Your life is now upside down. Finally, you are able to pull yourself out of your new Escalade with no injury. However, a few of the students have been injured and one killed. Now you have to live with that for the rest of your life. This is a prime example of cell phone distraction. Therefore, all cell phone usage in vehicles should be prohibited throughout the United States. Many people have invested in hands-free headsets for their phones. Although this is an excellent idea for phone use during many activities, driving is not one of them. Hands-free headsets or hands-free systems are just as dangerous as holding your phone when you are talking and listening to a conversation while driving. We should all travel down the road with both hands placed at ten and two o’clock on the steering wheel. If United States citizens could just put their cell phones out of hands’ reach until they arrive at their destinations, the country would have safer roads and highways. It is a fact that automobile accidents would be lowered tremendously if all of the states participated in the ban of cell phone use while driving. Together, politicians and the people of the United States urgently need to have all cell phone use while driving banned in the rest of the fifty states.