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Reading or writing text messages while you are walking is dangerous. new study says it is more dangerous than texting while driving. study is from University of Buffalo in USA. Researchers found that there are more injuries per kilometer to texting pedestrians than there are to texting motorists. Their report says walking is not as easy as we think it is. We need to focus on many things at same time to walk safely in straight line. The research team said that people forget how to walk properly, so dangerous things happen to them. They bump into walls and other people, walk into cars, fall over things in street, and even fall into holes or down stairs.

University of Buffalo professor said walking is complex action. He said there are several reasons why texting stops people from walking properly. One reason is that they cannot see path ahead of them. Another is that they are focused on their fingers on their mobile phone keyboard instead of their feet on street. final reason is that their minds are somewhere else and not on thinking about walking from A to B safely. professor said over 6,000 people visited his hospital last year because they were injured while texting. He said worst cases are head injuries. When pedestrian is tossed into air after being hit by car, he/she has nothing to protect head, and damage can be serious.