Early Wednesday morning, Chandler Small, a 19-year-old Montgomery County native and a student Texas A&M University, was returning to College Station from a visit to friends at Sam Houston State in Huntsville.

DPS officials say that she was pecking out a text message while speeding along Highway 30 when she lost control of her truck and flipped it several times. Although another motorist found the vehicle and law enforcement arrived soon after, Small died at the scene.

Her tragic, close-to-home death again breaches the topic of distracted driving, a bad habit that too many of us can't seem to shake — even if it's just an errant "On my way!" at a stop sign or an odd "OMG" along a neighborhood street.

An estimated 1.3 million crashes were attributed to cell phone usage in 2011, accounting for nearly a quarter of all auto collisions that year. Although there are bans on phone usage in school zones and some city-specific stipulations that outlaw texting and driving, Texas doesn't have any comprehensive anti-texting laws on the books (unlike 39 states and the District of Columbia, where text messaging is banned for all drivers).

For the upcoming state legislative session, Rep. Tom Craddick from Midland has pre-filed a bill that would establish a statewide law against distracted driving — similar to the one that Gov. Rick Perry vetoed in 2011, calling it overreach and a "government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults."

Lawmakers will convene for the 83rd Legislative Session on Jan. 8, 2013. Would you support an outright ban on texting and driving?

Watch KHOU's full report on Small's recent accident below: