What will it take to convince commuters not to text and drive? Several campaigns have been launched to warn drivers about the dangers of texting on the road, but thousands continue to anyway.

According to statistics, approximately 8.1 percent of traffic deaths in the first half of 2015 were associated with drivers being on their smartphones. That’s a number that the U.S. government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration doesn’t want to see.

So what is the NHTSA doing about it? In the company’s latest attempt to deter texting and driving, the power of Twitter was put to good use. The NHTSA used Twitter to text shame drivers who admitted to texting on the road. Check out some of the responses below.

From those who confessed that they really should break the habit to those who admitted to snapchatting while driving, several of Twitter’s users found themselves publicly reprimanded by the NHTSA, who used the #justdrive hashtag in replies. It wasn’t only young drivers who were caught, either. Some twitterphiles actually called out their elders for texting on the road and the NHTSA was quick to respond.

The next time you think about Tweeting on the road, please put your phone down and #justdrive. Not only do you risk endangering yourself and other drivers, but you could get a public slap on the wrist from the government’s traffic safety administration.

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