One of our main goals, as personal injury lawyers, is to educate you on why auto accidents occur. Every car accident has a cause and most times it is because of a driver’s mistake.
A lot of car accidents happen in California, so hopefully this list can help prevent a few.
1
Speeding
According to the California Office of Traffic Safety, there were 149,258 car crashes in California caused by speeding in 2007. As car accident lawyers, we agree that speeding causes way too many accidents. Speeding gives drivers less time to react when their cars move at higher speeds, and car accident injuries for speeders are more serious and could cause wrongful death.
Nearly 150,000 automobile accidents could have been averted if drivers just obeyed the speed limit and drove at a safer speed.
2
Improper Turns
They come in all shapes and sizes, but improper, bad turns caused 85,967 auto accidents in California alone in 2007. Be careful and wait for the right of way when making a turn.
3
Bad Merging
Who would have guessed that the third-highest cause of auto accidents in 2007 was bad merging? Bad merging usually causes car accidents when vehicles are merging on to the highway, so a good driver would be careful and safely change lanes over to the left (when possible) to help accommodate merging traffic.
4
Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of Alcohol and Drugs
Shockingly, the number of auto accidents caused by drunk-driving and driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs totalled just the fourth highest cause of car accidents. While the numbers are going down for drunk-driving car accidents, drowsy driving still caused 1,404 wrongful deaths in 2007. That number is too high.
5
Drifting Out of Lane
In 2007, 15,574 car accidents occurred when drivers allowed their cars to simply drift out of their lanes. A major cause of fatal car accidents, drifting off road is a one-way ride to a wrongful death.
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