Causes of accidents - the perpetrators of the tragedies and their consequences
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The main causes of road accidents and injuries of people in Russia can be found in the behavior of both drivers and pedestrians. The former love thrills and are too presumptuous, while the latter mistakenly assume that everyone strictly follows the rules of the road. But all this is not so, so let's talk about the most painful in this article.
Causes of accidents: cars
To begin with, consider the causes of accidents exclusively among drivers. The consequences in such cases are different, especially visual and shocking shots contain piles of crumpled metal and a lot of blood. Why is this happening, is there really no subconscious fear and caution for everyone who has received a driver's license? As statistics show, few people think about it, everyone believes that it will not affect them. Let's think about what mistakes most often become fatal.
The most common causes of road accidents between two or more cars are speeding and drunk driving.. For some reason, the driver does not often think that the road surface does not always provide perfect grip on the wheels, situations are especially terrible when it starts to rain or ice is covered with snow. And in a tipsy state, many people acquire “super strength”, but in reality everything is exactly the opposite: reactions decrease, vision becomes dull, and so on.
Creating an emergency situation on the road can be a consequence of non-observance of the distance. Why people on such heavy metal units huddle together is unknown. But everyone in school learned that mass is a measure of inertia, for some reason everyone forgets about it while driving, and hopes to slow down in the blink of an eye, although this is a priori impossible. This can also include negligence when overtaking, as well as recklessness when avoiding obstacles. Often the driver misjudges his chances and does not have time to finish overtaking, getting an oncoming collision. Or, when making a detour along a passing lane, he forgets to warn other participants about this.
The most terrible outcome of an unsuccessful overtaking is a head-on collision! If you see the inevitability of this event, go into the ditch or to the side of the road, so the probability of saving lives is hundreds of times higher.
Causes of road accidents involving people
Accidents involving people rarely end well, because even a ton of metal (the smallest car) is unlikely to leave only scratches, there are very few such lucky ones. The types and causes of traffic accidents involving children are amazing and deplorable, statistics inexorably publishes huge numbers of broken lives. This is a big fault of the parents, who did not instill due caution in their heirs in relation to transport. The judgment that "the pedestrian is always right ..." is fundamentally wrong, so one often wants to add "... even if he is dead?".
The thing is that with the ambitions of drivers described above, even banal poor visibility conditions are often associated. This is not necessarily bad weather or unlit sections of the road, even in street lighting conditions it is almost impossible to see a pedestrian on a zebra if a school of cars with headlights on is coming towards you. The distance from which you will see it will be equal to several meters, and then everything depends on your reaction and speed, these meters may not be enough for the braking distance.
In order to avoid accidents on the roads with such sad consequences, you should be taught from childhood to look around even at the “zebra” and traffic lights, it is better to let the car pass, even if you are sure that you still have time to run across in front of it. The driver may be distracted from the road, and you expect him to slow down? It will ruin your life! Even adults should be more careful, there are no places on the road where they would give you a guarantee that the motorist will do everything right, only underground or ground crossings.
Causes of accidents on the railway - avoiding heavy equipment
Even more spectacular and traumatic accidents are kept in their history by each railway crossing, the causes of accidents in such cases lie in the arrogance of the driver, and sometimes in the usual unfortunate combination of circumstances. The first category is characterized by a simple violation of the rules of the road, when the car drives out on the road, ignoring the barrier and traffic signals, even the stern look of the traffic controller who monitors the implementation of these rules does not stop the driver at the time of the mistake.
Having left on the track, it is not necessary to get stuck there for mechanical reasons (stall, slip, etc.), you can simply not calculate the speed of the train or not see it at all around the bend. But it often happens that the causes of accidents on the railway are a tragic joke of fate, when all circumstances promise that you will have time to cross the crossing before the arrival of the train, which seems to be invisible on the horizon, but suddenly you break down right on the rails. Only operational collective creativity will help save you and the car from death under the train, the main signal signs and actions are described in the traffic rules.
