To your list, I would add stubborn Americans, who insist on driving on the right side of the road in the UK. (I would also include confusing traffic signs on that list.)
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https://www.strongtieinsurance.com/common-reasons-road-accidents/
*** Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is the most common cause of road accidents in the United States, resulting in more crashes every year than speeding, drunk driving, and other major accident causes.
Drivers can become distracted behind the wheel for a variety of reasons. Some of the leading causes of distracted driving accidents include using a cellphone while driving, as well as eating food or drinking from a mug or bottle while behind the wheel.
*** Speeding
Speeding is the second most common cause of road accidents in the United States. Since car and truck accidents that involve speeding typically occur at high speeds, it’s also a major cause of fatal road injuries.
Driving above the speed limit is a common practice for many motorists. It’s also illegal behavior that vastly increases the risk of losing control of a vehicle and causing an accident. The faster a vehicle travels, the longer it takes to slow down in the event of an obstacle.
Even a small increase in speed can result in a much higher risk of being involved in a collision or other type of accident. As such, it’s essential for motorists to be aware of the speed at which they’re traveling and stay within the legal limits.
They should have failure to yield right of way in that list.
Whether it is running a traffic light/stop sign or speeding up when someone is entering a roadway or trying to merge, some drivers refuse to “surrender” to a car that is ahead of them.
Big Regulation causes severe accidents, and they are immune from prosecution.
Simple bad rules, such as no touching gadgets while driving, causes drivers to hide gadgets in their lap, looking down away from the road.
Instead of proudly aiming your mapping gadget, in front of you while looking at the road, hands free Regulation causes look away or look down driving.
When Dept of Transportation agents start going to prison, safety will return to the roads.
Thanks for the intelligent reply. Sadly, as usual the little children posting here do not have any such response, other than critiquing my mis-typing.
Driving above the speed limit is a common practice for many motorists. It’s also illegal behavior that vastly increases the risk of losing control of a vehicle and causing an accident.
1. There is a huge diversity of skill levels in licensed drivers. One guy can do 75 on a road all day long, and safely. Another can barely keep his car under control at the posted limit of 55, and just prays a car doesn’t pull in front of him, or a deer.
2. They are intentionally at least 10 mph lower than they need to be because it causes pretty much everyone to speed, allowing cops to be able to pull over any car they want if there is some other suspicion that they might have.
The thing about “illegal behavior” behind the wheel is that you are not so much breaking laws - You are breaking “rules”. Most infractions are not civil or criminal. They are “something else”. I just see them as suggestions, and when a cop disagrees about your decision, he fines you. It’s very much like a game to me.
The exception is the ones that ARE felony’s or misdemeanors. That is when you are actually “Breaking the law”. You can speed, but if you speed by too wide a margin, you’ll go to jail. That is when you’ve broken the law.
Even a small increase in speed can result in a much higher risk of being involved in a collision or other type of accident.
It has been found that higher speeds aren’t as dangerous as that one guy who refuses to go along. The accidents start happening as people encounter him and start shifting lanes to go around him. In the past “going with the flow” meant doing 65 in a 55. Today, however, on Long Island, going with the flow means going 75/80 in a 55...
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