What do you think are the common causes of accidents?

Question

What do you think are the common causes of accidents?

Answer 1

human error

Answer 2

BAD DRIVERS!!

Answer 3

Stupidity is the short answer.

Answer 4

I would say the most common is inattentive driving ,not paying attention to the traffic or the road conditions kind of like talking on the cellphone your not concentrating on the road and what your suppose to be doing

Answer 5

1. Inattention

2. Too Much Attention to Too Little

3. Not Enough Time

4. Not Enough Space

5. Not Allowing for the Mistakes of Other Drivers

Answer 6

Lack of defensive driving

Inattention

Tunnel vision

Speeding

Reckless driving

Not adjusting driving to road and weather conditions

edit: Drugs

        Alcohol

        Sick

Answer 7

Not looking anywhere except where THEY are going.  

Cell phones.

Running mouth faster than engine.

Lane changes without regard for anyone occupying other lanes.

Answer 8

Stupidity.

Answer 9

I think the biggest contributing factor to accidents is that the majority of people aren't completely comfortable in their cars.  Sure they may feel fine and not be afraid of driving, but if you don't have complete confidence in your machine and your ability to control your machine, accidents will happen.

I drive like a madman and have never hit another vehicle in my life.  *knock on wood

Answer 10

Distracted drivers,careless driving.

Answer 11

Of course you think you can drive while listening to the radio, talking on your cell phone and eating, with kids and pets in the back seat. Who doesn’t?

Every single person who had an accident from being distracted thought he or she could handle such “multi-tasking,” right?

So just how big a distraction are distractions? Last year, only 4,300 accidents were caused by the major distractions. Oh, that’s 4300 a day.

Otherwise known as 3 a minute around the clock, or, one quarter of all auto accidents, or 1.5 million a year.

(Technically, almost all accidents are caused by someone “being distracted,” but we’ll settle for a quarter due to specific, known distractions.)

Answer 12

An accident can happen to any person at any time.  You could be sober or intoxicated, alert or distracted.

Answer 13

Tailgateing and cell phones.

Answer 14

Probably not looking around correctly, misjudging another cars distance/speed, and speeding yourself.

Answer 15

I would have to say inexperience given the young people get into accidents often.

Good Luck...

Answer 16

not paying attention, running red lights, tailgating