Main Cause of accidents/road safety

[donadoni212]

many causes of traffic accidents, you drive with a hangover condition can also result in traffic accidents.
you drive with sleepiness, it can also cause accidents because of lack of focus you are driving

[bert062287]

Usually the cause of road accidents are, reckless driving, driving with the influence of alcohol, stress driving, lack of self awareness regarding road roles and policy.

[fireblond]

Main causes of accidents
Drinking under influence DUI
and using the phone

[Lecam]

There are few basic things that are responsible for road accidents. Like
Over speeding
Lane Discipline
Traffic signal violation
Under age drivers

What you think except these things that are causing road accidents?

You may have observed that everyone is in hurry while on road. How many of you leave for for your work or college before time ? I think when someone is leaving for office/college at time then he/she would be in hurry that can also be a cause of accident. There is not even a single road where accident does not occur daily. Thousands of people die each year during these accidents. How can we reduce road accidents?
What are the main factors responsible for accidents in your country ? In my country mostly traffic signal violation.

The main cause of road accidents is negligence and lack of road discipline. Most drivers are easily trigerred and stressed when driving. Even if you are driving safely, if other drivers are not, roads are still not safe. A lot of drivers don't care of other's safety.

[Tubig]

There are few basic things that are responsible for road accidents. Like
Over speeding
Lane Discipline
Traffic signal violation
Under age drivers

What you think except these things that are causing road accidents?

You may have observed that everyone is in hurry while on road. How many of you leave for for your work or college before time ? I think when someone is leaving for office/college at time then he/she would be in hurry that can also be a cause of accident. There is not even a single road where accident does not occur daily. Thousands of people die each year during these accidents. How can we reduce road accidents?
What are the main factors responsible for accidents in your country ? In my country mostly traffic signal violation.

I think it is the mental behavior. Being stubborn and not following road laws and regulation leads to accident. Letbus also add the lack of road signages and poor traffic advisories and laws that regulates drivers on the way they act on the streets.

[Farah powl67]

driving while drunk
busy with mobile phones
daydreaming

[pappisman]

The main causes of death and injury on Irish roads remain speeding, drink driving and non-wearing of seat-belts .

[spongegar]

You asked about the cause of road accidents, but I'm including things that cause accidents to become serious or fatal as well. The seatbelt does not reduce accidents, but it makes you something like 5 to 10 times more likely to survive.

Driving while drunk. Usually in a large vehicle that demolishes whatever it hits.

Lack of vehicle maintenance, such as rear tires with not enough tred left and hydroplaning.

Using electronic communication devices while driving and running red lights etc.

Parents who raise their children in accident free environments, so the children do not learn the value of safety.

People with small hatchback cars that get rear ended by tall vehicles which kills the people in the back even at fairly low speed. There is no safety rating done based on this situation.

Highways which only have grass but no barrier separating oncoming traffic.

People not wearing seatbelts. Something like 5% of people don't in some places and 25% - 50% of deaths are from those 5%.

Dangerous passing at high speeds. From a growing sense of entitlement and complete disregard to whether it is proper to do such a thing. Try driving slowly. People will try to pass you in a no passing zone because they it's their right to go fast even if it's dangerous and you pull to the right to let them go down the middle in between you and the uncoming car. Look at the Russian dashcam videos!

Attempting to swerve rather than slowing down to avoid a collision.

Swerving to avoid a stopped vehicle at the last moment resulting in the tali gating vehicles behind not seeing it until it's too late.

Following too closely with lane changes without being able to see what is ahead.

Following too closely resulting in multi vehile pile ups (if they didn't bring the whole highway down to 5MPH before that).

People merging in to highways acting like they have the right of way. Tailgaters on the highway, increased speeds on the highway, and short entry ramps have probably contributed to people drining like this. Tailgaters and people merging in will bring a whole higway down to stop and go traffic.

Large differences in vehicle sizes on the roads.

Driving the speed limit where conditions do not permit, such as ice and rain and night time driving.

Using road salt resulting in cars driving at full speed in the winter and then hitting patches of ice and snow that didn't get salted or plowed resulting in loss of control.

Lack of public transportation forcing people who don't want to drive or shouldn't drive to drive cars.

Police not enforcing the law when people do dangerous things at high speeds. A belief of political correctness means that people who do bad things are thought of as being discriminated against if they are punished for their actions.

Speed limits that are actually way to high for highways that are not physically divided.

I believe Japan doesn't have nearly as many  traffic problems because they enforce traffic rules over there. It's the opposite of a place like India.

Yes!!! I see alot of these drivers on the road daily!!! People actually know the rules but they choose to break it, mainly because these rules aren't enforced. For me, having rules and or regulations aside, the main cause of accidents are caused by people who aren't considerate on the road. Those that ignore and selfishly hog the road for other drivers. If only everyone actually think about other people and consider their safety then we in turn will be safe

[kh bhuiyan]

Main cause of accidents is distracted driving. Many people talks to phones while driving. This cause them the distraction.

[billsted86]

Driving in the influence of liquor

Driving a vehicle in a state of being under the influence of alcohol is very dangerous, because when driving awareness is not in a state of 100%, sometimes even some are not aware at all. This is so often the case around us. The impact that occurs not only endangers yourself, but also other innocent people can become victims

[Sithara007]

The main causes of death and injury on Irish roads remain speeding, drink driving and non-wearing of seat-belts .

It is not limited to Ireland. Everywhere it is like that. Even in my country, more than half of all the accidents are caused by drunk drivers. And here no one wears seat belt, except the driver. The authorities are also very careless about it. Even if someone gets killed as a result of drunken driving, the perpetrator is let-off with a fine.

[smokeash07]

hallucination causes of drinking alcohol that commonly bring us to accident, over-taking and speed limit control. 

[princesspoppy]

Lack of  knowledge about road rules and regulations that should be followed by drivers are one of main causes of accidents, also not following all of these rules and regutions. Reckless driving, sudden passing of animals in a road and poor road construction also contribute to road accidents.

[ask]

Mobile phones, internet, drugs,super fast cars,  alcohol and stupid roads.
But the main cause is "Humans" Look at animal they never make accidents in hungle cause they focus on saving their lifes

[DHORBUNOV]

There are few basic things that are responsible for road accidents. Like
Over speeding
Lane Discipline
Traffic signal violation
Under age drivers

What you think except these things that are causing road accidents?

You may have observed that everyone is in hurry while on road. How many of you leave for for your work or college before time ? I think when someone is leaving for office/college at time then he/she would be in hurry that can also be a cause of accident. There is not even a single road where accident does not occur daily. Thousands of people die each year during these accidents. How can we reduce road accidents?
What are the main factors responsible for accidents in your country ? In my country mostly traffic signal violation.

Insolent and self-confident drivers, plus the purchase of rights and ignorance of basic rules. All this just outrages, and a simple pedestrian understands that it is not only safe to approach the passage, but to walk along the roadside and stand dangerously at a stop.

[ninjacrack]

I think the main cause of road accidents are: Drunk, Under age drivers, And they don't mind the road sign. So these people are not disciplined so accidents can occur to them because of their irresponsible activity

[dilshanfernando]

I think the main cause for accidents is carelessness. and there a many other reasons too. Taking alchohol, thinking about problems while driving are some of them.

[Kotone]

There are few basic things that are responsible for road accidents. Like
Over speeding
Lane Discipline
Traffic signal violation
Under age drivers

What you think except these things that are causing road accidents?

You may have observed that everyone is in hurry while on road. How many of you leave for for your work or college before time ? I think when someone is leaving for office/college at time then he/she would be in hurry that can also be a cause of accident. There is not even a single road where accident does not occur daily. Thousands of people die each year during these accidents. How can we reduce road accidents?
What are the main factors responsible for accidents in your country ? In my country mostly traffic signal violation.

I think it is a combination of things that nake accidents happen on the road. it is not just one act alone but it is also aided by the lack of communication human and me hanical errors and that is why every bit of precaution should always be excercised.

[Sithara007]

Yesterday there was a major accident here. Although no one lost their lives, a number of them received serious injuries and needed hospitalization. The traffic authorities had issued travel warning due to heavy smog. But if people are not ready to follow the orders, then what can we do about it?

[moanamakeway]

There are few basic things that are responsible for road accidents. Like
Over speeding
Lane Discipline
Traffic signal violation
Under age drivers

What you think except these things that are causing road accidents?

You may have observed that everyone is in hurry while on road. How many of you leave for for your work or college before time ? I think when someone is leaving for office/college at time then he/she would be in hurry that can also be a cause of accident. There is not even a single road where accident does not occur daily. Thousands of people die each year during these accidents. How can we reduce road accidents?
What are the main factors responsible for accidents in your country ? In my country mostly traffic signal violation.

Common causes of accidents in our country is tailgaiting. With the traffic that is happening around, people tend to find ways to just follow the car in front. Also there are times that people changes lang too quickly without appropriate signalling.
Secondly, the motorbikes here in our country becomes a real problem because they usually causes traffic. Motorbikers tend to stick their bikes in the sidestreet. They think that the road is a maze. That is why, there are instances where trucks run them over because of this habit.