There’s nothing wrong with using a cellphone. It brings the communication lines between you and your loved even oceans apart. But when using it while driving is a whole lotta different story. It’s distraction becomes so alarming that it could lead to fatal proportions.

For the last couple of years, the number of cases of accidents caused by this kind of driver distraction has risen dramatically, which gives the government every reason to be alarmed and make safety measures out of it. A survey coming out of Nationwide Insurance reveals that “45 percent of drivers say they have been hit or nearly hit by another driver using a cell phone.” While the government warns that 5,870 people were killed and 515,000 were injured last year caused by crashes “where at least one form of driver distraction was reported. Driver distraction was involved in 16 percent of all fatal crashes in 2008 and was prevalent among young drivers.”

Which is why 80 percent of Americans—according to National’s recent survey—agrees to ban the texting while more than half is in favor of putting away cell phones while driving.

Among the solution the agency is seeking to put up safety-promoting software like blocking calls or texts and use auto-reply message to let those seeking them that they are driving. “Teens have this two-minute rule — somebody sends a text message, and if you don’t get back within two minutes, the other person feels you’re mad at them, or something’s wrong,” Nationwide’s Safety Officer Bill Windsor said. “We think this technology will fill that gap.”

I agree with such call. Besides putting their own - as well as their pasengers’ - lives in peril, they would even become other motorists worst nightmare with this deadly habit. More details on CarJunky.