Houston Law Firm Awards Scholarships For Distracted Driving Month

HOUSTON — A Houston-based personal injury law firm is sponsoring a scholarship contest to coincide with Distracted Driving Awareness Month in April. The law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz is sponsoring its 7th Annual Text Free Texas Scholarship Contest during the month of April.

The purpose of this scholarship contest is to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, specifically texting while driving, among teen drivers.

Each year, the firm invites four different Houston high schools to participate in the Text Free Texas Scholarship Contest.

The high schools chosen to participate this year are:

• Chavez High School
• East Early College High School
• Kashmere High School
• Mount Carmel Academy

Throughout April, driving-age students from these schools will submit pledges to abstain from texting while driving.

At the end of the month, representatives of the firm will select the best pledge from each school and award those students with a $250 scholarship. The four scholarship winners will be announced the first week of May.

Distracted driving is dangerous and causes fatalities and injuries on the road every day. In 2017, 3,166 fatalities were reported to be caused by crashes involving distracted driving.

Many studies show that texting while driving is more dangerous than driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08%.

The Text Free Texas Scholarship Contest targets teen drivers as they are particularly at risk for distracted driving accidents.

Teen drivers are the youngest and least experienced drivers on the road and are among those between 16- to 24-years-old where handheld cellphone use while driving is most common.

The attorneys have seen the devastating consequences of cellphone use while driving and hope the contest will encourage young drivers to not text and drive in order to keep everyone safer on the road.

To learn more about the Text Free Texas Scholarship Contest, visit www.TextFreeTexas.com or contact Madison Kauffman at 713-222-7211.