What are the 5 causes of a road traffic accuident?

Question

What are the 5 causes of a road traffic accuident?

Answer 1

Bad weather, bad maintenance, driving under influence, lack of attention, lack of judgement.

Answer 2

DWI

CellPhone Use

Speed

Old People

Weather

Answer 3

speed - people drive far too fast, and don't make allowances for sharp corners, ice, rain, snow etc

please slow down

sadly some people still think it is acceptable to take substances (be it alcohol, prescription and non prescription drugs) and then drive

driving whilst tired

being distracted by the scenery, other people in the car, tuning the radio

using a mobile phone whilst driving whether using a hands free kit or not.

Its not acceptable to do any of these things - please drive carefully

Answer 4

Sleepiness

Distracted drivers- cell phones,kids,eating ,putting on makeup,changing clothes while driving etc.

Weather conditions

Road Conditions

Drunk/ drug drivers

Answer 5

people

people

people

people

people

Answer 6

Glad to see you have keyboard glitches as well.. however, personally I reckon bad road design, poor judgement, lack of attention.

Those take nearly all accidents, the bad road design or lack of maintenance or care thereof means that frequently people do not pay attention to the right things(also lack of attention), bad camber, bad drainage causing aquaplaning, bad road surfaces causing bad braking and so on.

  Poor judgement means going too fast, too slow, pulling out in front of vehicles and so on.

  The lack of attention is talking on the phone, smoking, s*x and so on.

  I do not think there really is much else.

Answer 7

road ragers/makeup putter onners

middle lane hoggers

mobile phone users/ genrally not paying attention

motorcyclists weaving

people  cutting in to braking spaces

excessive speed

sadly a higher percent of women drivers have accidents when compared to men having accidents most of these accidents are between 7-9 am and 3-5 pm strange that is

Answer 8

I can think of 5 things that cause accidents

ice

rain

snow

people watching the accident on the other side of the road

drunk drivers

Answer 9

I think accidents are caused when two bad drivers meet.

That is, when a bad driver drives in a very dangerous way, he can get away with it because other road users take avoiding action simply by driving safely.

When the bad driver meets another bad driver, a crash is inevitable.

Answer 10

women drivers

asian drivers

mobile phones

old farts and

tom tom navigators

Answer 11

The is more than 100 reasons, the main ones, speed, road,technical car failure,lack of concentration, climate conditions.

Answer 12

(1) Driving at unsafe speed  16.5%

(2) Failure to yield right-of-way  7.8%

(3) Crossed the centre line  7.5%

(4) Passed stop sign  2.6%

(5) Improper overtaking  2.5%

(6) Disregarded a signal  2.2%

(7) Followed too closely  0.6%

(8) Other violations  15.3%

Answer 13

OLD PEOPLE!!!!

OLD PEOPLE!!!!

OLD PEOPLE!!!!

OLD PEOPLE!!!!

OLD PEOPLE!!!!

Answer 14

As a driver of 40+ years experience I would agree with most of the answers so far but in my opinion they can be categorised under general headings.

Impatience

Lack of attention

Lack of foresight

Disregard for other road users

Modern driving techniques (as taught)

Answer 15

There are only 2 causes of RTAs.

1. Mechanical failure - eg your engine seizes when going up the motorway or one of your pistons explodes

2. Human error - which accounts for 95% of all the RTAs. The weather does not cause accidents. Pillocks driving too fast for the road conditions cause accidents.

Answer 16

Failing to drive in a manner suited to the prevailing conditions, poor road / weather / traffic conditions or mistakes by other drivers are just excuses.

Mechanical failure is a possible cause, but that is often the result of failure to maintain the vehicle and carry out pre-use checks correctly.

Answer 17

Inattention

excess hurry

stupidity (such as tailgating(

fatigue

inattention

Answer 18

1. Drivers tried to beat train/lightrail to cross the crossing gate, but only to get hit by train/lighrail because impatient drivers and only to get caught on red light and getting hit by train.

2. Speeding illegal limit.

3. Distracted driving- Cell phones, text message, listen to music, etc.

4. DWI (Driving While Intoxicated)

5. Shifting lanes back on forth in front of heavey vehicle (semi-truck/buses, etc)

Answer 19

i work for the highways agencey and i have to go to alot of road traffic accidents every week the most comen ones are people driveing fast, pulling out on people , falling asleep, stoping on the hard shoulder, mobile phones bad weather , lane hogers, the list goes on

Answer 20

women On cell phones

girls On cell phones

females On cell phones

ladies On cell phones

chics On cell phones

Answer 21

1. Driving Under Influence.

2. Lack of Driving Attention. (Law-Breaking and Uncontrollable Speeding Included)

3. Not Knowledgeable/Considerate about Vehicle Maintenance. (That's why car breakdown happens)

4. Driving OTHER People's Vehicle/Unfamiliar about a vehicle/driving system or usage - As an fresh automotive personnel, I was warned when I once bumped a customer's car into another.

5. Tiredness/Drowsiness during a drive. (If it's a manual, prepare to pay for your forgetfulness of gear-shifting!)

Answer 22

OOh all you males saying women cheek if fact its males that have more accidents than women.

anyways back to the question,

The main cause of road traffic accidents is driver error also weather, i think driver error can sum up more than one answer.

x

Answer 23

top of the list

people who cant be ar... using their indicators

Answer 24

driving to close

speed

using phones

drink

not having enough sleep

and 6

sorry to say also men looking at ladys in short skirts

Answer 25

There is only one cause of road collisions. Human error. a very few accidents are caused by sudden unpredictable mechanical failure but most of those could have been prevented by regular servicing.