Causes of Road Accidents:

The various causes of accidents may be listed as given below:

1) Due to Drivers: Excessive speed and rash driving, carelessness, violation of rules and regulation, failure to see or understand the traffic situation, sign or signal, temporary effects due to fatigue, sleep or effect of consuming alcohol.

2) Due to Pedestrians: Violating regulations, carelessness while using the carriagewaymeant for vehicular traffic.

3) Due to Passengers: Alighting from or getting into moving vehicles.

4) Due to Vehicle defects: Failure of brakes, steering system, or lighting system, tyre burst and any other defect in the vehicles.

5) Due to Road Condition: Slippery or skidding road surface, pot holes, ruts and other damaged conditions of the road surface, temporary obstruction to line of sight (caused by branch of tree or disabled vehicle) resulting in reduction in normal sight distance.

6) Due to Road Design: Defective geometric design like inadequate sight distance at horizontal or vertical curves, improper curve design, inadequate width of shoulders, improper lighting and improper traffic control devices.

7) Due to Traffic Condition: Other vehicles of the traffic stream, such as a vehicle moving ahead getting involved in accident, presence of disabled vehicle on the roadway.

8) Due to Weather: Unfavorable weather conditions like mist, fog, snow, dust, smoke or heavy rainfall which restrict normal visibility and render driving unsafe.

9) Due to Animals: Stray animals on the road.

10) Other causes: Incorrect signs or signals, gate of level crossing not closed when required, ribbon development, badly located advertisement boards or service stations etc.