A traffic accident is a contingency on public roads that involves one or more vehicles.
A traffic accident is a contingency that occurs on public roads and involves one or more vehicles . It should be noted that, beyond unforeseeable or random issues, the notion also usually includes those events that occur due to the irresponsibility or negligence of people.
An accident is called an event that causes unintentional damage or that alters the usual state of an event. Transit , on the other hand, is the act of transiting (going from one place to another, traveling).
Example of a traffic accident
Suppose a subject suffers cardiac arrest while driving his car. As he fades, he loses control of the vehicle and runs over a pedestrian .
The driver, who had no cardiac history, was driving in compliance with traffic rules, while the victim did not violate any rules either. It can be said that this traffic accident, therefore, was truly fortuitous or random, since no negligent behavior was detected.
The so-called traffic accidents are usually the result of recklessness.
The imprudence
In most cases, however, traffic accidents occur as a direct result of human error. The usual thing is that they occur due to reckless driving of vehicles, due to reckless behavior by pedestrians or due to deficiencies in the road infrastructure (poor condition of the roads , lack of signs, etc.).
If a man drives drunk at 180 kilometers per hour and crashes into another vehicle, the news may possibly be presented as a traffic accident or road accident. However, the damage caused could have been avoided if the driver had respected the rules on alcohol consumption while driving and the maximum speed allowed when driving.
Traffic accidents and road education
One of the main causes of traffic accidents is the deficiency of road safety education that children receive from their elders. Although in many countries the government requires citizens to pass a theoretical exam in which their technical knowledge of driving rules and the different elements of public roads is tested, this does not happen everywhere in the world. ; On the other hand, it is a relatively recent imposition, which is why many young drivers have not had to comply with it .
This leads to a large percentage of drivers not knowing the current regulations in depth and, instead, deciding based on their own criteria how to navigate the streets of their city. This imprecise and often incorrect information is then passed on to their children, and so on. If we add this phenomenon to the lack of control that exists in certain countries, it is not difficult to understand why there are so many traffic accidents per day.
Lack of respect for the rules
On the other hand, it is known that in each city a different trend is perceived in reference to the respect that drivers and pedestrians have for road rules . While in some cities citizens strictly comply with the rules and even immediately report those who do not do so, in other parts of the world there is real chaos when it comes to taking a car ride.
Statistics from many countries indicate that the largest number of traffic accidents are caused by very young drivers, who do not have much experience behind the wheel. It is never good to generalize, but there are plenty of examples of teenagers who confuse driving with a competition , and put aside their responsibility to embark on real races in the street, causing all kinds of misfortunes, putting both their own lives and others at risk. of his friends and, why not, that of any innocent person who crosses his path.