When advising a student about using information contained on the web for crashes caused by texting while driving I would first warn them about some misleading sources on the internet. I would make sure they knew to validate the website they were using before taking the information provided into account.
I would then steer them in a direction of a .gov website which I believe would have the most accurate and up to date information. I would next suggest an encyclopedia.com site, which would have good facts and reliable information on the subject. Third, I would send them to Proquest to look up articles about crashes that have recently happened, which would provide first hand accounts of people in the situation they're researching. Next, I would suggest wikipedia because it possibly has some statistics and background information on the subject, but would require more research to make sure the information was correct. Lastly, I would suggest to the student to search via their favorite search engine. This search can be overwhelming and bring a huge amount of results, with a lot of false leads.
