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

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