Driving

What are the most common reasons for car accidents?

What are the most common injuries in accidents?

What are the best ways to avoid being involved in an accident?

 

What are the most common reasons?

Distracted driving is a big problem on the roads.Texting, rubbernecking, or slowing down to view something else account for 16% of all distraction-related crashes , driver fatigue accounts for about 12%, viewing scenery accounts for about 10%, other passengers or children account for 9%, adjusting music accounts for 7% and reading documents accounts for less than 2% of distraction-related crashes. 

Drunk driving is responsible for about 40% of all car crashes. Alcohol-related car crashes kill someone every 45 minutes and injure someone every two minutes.  Drunken driving accidents cost the public around $114.3 billion a year.   

Distracted driving is also one of the leading causes of accidents. Anything that takes the drivers attention away from the road is considered a distraction.  Texting, rubbernecking, or slowing down to view something else account for 16% of all distraction-related crashes , driver fatigue accounts for about 12%, viewing scenery accounts for about 10%, other passengers or children account for 9%, adjusting music accounts for 7% and reading documents accounts for less than 2% of distraction-related crashes

What are the most common injuries